No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

It is this at its most basic that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

With acknowledgement of residues we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science the overlapping of disciplines and the total coherence of all facts.

I think coldness is chic among writers and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding by any means it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?