I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.

Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth.