If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

The education of young people in science is at least as important, maybe more so, than the research itself.

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

One of the first laws against air pollution came in 1300 when King Edward I decreed the death penalty for burning of coal. At least one execution for that offense is recorded. But economics triumphed over health considerations, and air pollution became an appalling problem in England.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution, is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.