The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen, and thinking what nobody has thought.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse.

Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function.

The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting off of hydrogen.

This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

Whatever man does he must do first in his mind.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

I've been really clear about this. If you want to be president, you should run for president. We should select our nominee from among the people who are running for president. Clear and simple. So no, I am not going to be the president. I am not going to be the nominee.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

It is our duty to watch over the actions and activities of this government and to insist that, in words as well as in deeds, the interests of our constituency primarily and of the Nation ultimately are served.

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

More than any other time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

Read the kinds of things you want to write; read the kinds of things you would never write. Learn something from every writer you read.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.

Diplomacy the art of restraining power.

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

I'm not too worried about that. I am a big believer in modeling.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.

Puffy produced four of the tracks on the album. Those are the four songs that are collaborations between Puffy and me. And he gives me my space to work even when we work together, like with my producer and my vocal coach.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.