It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.

There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.

Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

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.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

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

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.