In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.