I really believe in science. It is a faith. It is a reverence akin to religion. But as we always say, it's different from religion in that, as near as we can tell, it exists outside of us. It has an objective quality, the process of science.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.