"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."

"No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation."

"Power gravitates to the man who knows how."

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours."

"Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them."

"I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."