In teaching, you do not want to COVER things, you want to UNCOVER them. The best way to get good ideas is to have lots of ideas.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

I have always wanted to know as much as possible about the world.

There is no safe amount of radiation. Even small amounts do harm.

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

Do unto others 20% better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error.