"No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man."

"In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact."

"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."

"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."

"Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them."

"When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues."

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent."

"I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind."