"Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal."

“We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.”

Source : "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

“I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.”

“It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.”

“I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.”

“You always want to be able to convey items of interest, items that make the fan see what's happening, help them in their conversations of comparing teams or players and then be able to back it up to open his eyes to the history of the league.”

“Nature does not conquer the world to God. It never has. It never will. In America, with its vast abounding wealth, its grand expanse of prairie, its reach of river, and its exuberant productiveness, there is danger that our riches will draw us away from God, and fasten us to earth; that they will make us not only rich, but mean; not only wealthy, but wicked. The grand corrective is the cross of Christ, seen in the sanctuary where the life and light of God are exhibited, and where the reverberation of the echoes from the great white throne are heard.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 522), 1895.

“She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.”

Source : Nick Laird (2009). “Glover's mistake”

“Time is the soul of this world.”