[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
We would like to see you departing peacefully.
Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.
Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
It's the right idea, but not the right time.
[to the Easter Bunny] Behemoth: Bunny!
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Truth will lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.
The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.