My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

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

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

Scientists under all forms of government must be able to participate fully in international efforts.

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