Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.