It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Don’t create things to make money； make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work.

The most exciting aspect of chemistry is the ability to create new molecules that have never existed before.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.