Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

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

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

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

There is no short cut to acheivement.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.