"I believe that the human race has the ability to solve all of its problems, if we only work together."

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

"I confess that I had harbored the feeling that sooner or later I would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although I was pleased with the double-helix, I 'rather wished the idea had been his'."

"A good scientist thinks logically and accurately when conditions call for logical and accurate thinking—but so does any other good worker when he has a sufficient number of well-founded facts to serve…"

"To awaken an interest in chemistry in students we mustn't make the courses consist entirely of explanations, forgetting to mention what there is to be explained."