My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

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.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. 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.

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

We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.

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