You Can't Teach People Anything. You Can

I Went To The Trash Pile At Tuskegee Institute And Started My Laboratory With Bottles, Old Fruit Jars And Any Other Thing I Found I Could Use. ... [the Early Efforts Were] Worked Out Almost Wholly On Top Of My Flat Topped Writing Desk And With Teacups, Glasses, Bottles And Reagents I Made Myself.

I Believe That The Great Creator Has Put Ores And Oil On This Earth To Give Us A Breathing Spell ... As We Exhaust Them, We Must Be Prepared To Fall Back On Our Farms, Which Are God's True Storehouse. We Can Learn To Synthesize Materials For Every Human Need From Things That Grow.

Learn To Do The Common Things Uncommonly Well.

There Are Two Ways, One Is Right; The Other Is Wrong. If Your Work Is Only About Right, Then It Is Wrong.

Nothing Is More Beautiful Than The Loveliness Of The Woods Before Sunrise.