The pioneer spirit is still vigorous within this nation. Science offers a largely unexplored hinterland for the pioneer who has the tools for his task. The rewards of such exploration both for the Nation and the individual are great. Scientific progress is one essential key to our security as a nation, to our better health, to more jobs, to higher standard of living, and to our cultural progress.

As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those who can apply it to practica…

This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand o…

There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is sta…

In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.

A lot of progress was being made there at MIT. Those guys had molecules jumping through hoops like poodles in a circus.

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the hi…