Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.