By RELIGION, then, I UNDERSTAND a propitiation or conciliation of powers SUPERIOR to man which are believed to direct and control the course of NATURE and of human LIFE.

When I was in elementary SCHOOL, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my HOME in Mexico. I was able to borrow a BATHROOM and convert it to a laboratory. My PARENTS supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.

Just as we outgrow a PAIR of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, LIBRARIES, principles, etc., at times before they're WORN out and times - and this is the WORST of all - before we have new ONES.

Being honest means being FORTHRIGHT about INFORMATION, no MATTER how PAINFUL disclosing that information MIGHT be.

Above and BEYOND the QUESTION of how to GROW the economy there is a LEGITIMATE concern about how to grow the QUALITY of our lives.

A MINORITY GROUP has 'arrived' only when it has the RIGHT to produce some FOOLS and SCOUNDRELS without the entire group paying for it.

The sun, the MOON and the STARS would have disappeared long ago... had they HAPPENED to be within the reach of predatory HUMAN HANDS.

I would LIKE to be REMEMBERED as a PERSON who WANTED to be free... so other people would be also free.

A CHILD is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the MERE adding of YEARS in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.