Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the appropriate elected representatives of the American people.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks but few with their intelligence. I however assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.