In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.