I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. ↗
The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. ↗
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature. ↗
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. ↗
I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded. ↗