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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work.

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.

When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Architecture aims at Eternity.