This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. Creation is embarrassing. For every new good idea you have, there are a hundred, ten thousand foolish ones.

It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys.

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.