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.

Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.

I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .