Our age is before all things a practical one. It demands of us all clear and tangible results of our work.
We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line.
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.
Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.
The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences.
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.
No law of nature, however general, has been established all at once; its recognition has always been preceded by many presentiments.
Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.
