Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

From the point of view of basic physics, the most interesting phenomena are, of course, in the new places, the places where the rules do not work – not the places where they do work! That is the way in which we discover new rules.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‚Eureka!‘ but ‚That’s funny…‘

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

My discovery that black holes emit radiation raised serious problems of consistency with the rest of physics. I have now resolved these problems, but the answer turned out to be not what I expected.

When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you’re not just bringing the products, but you’re also harming local manufacturers.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn’t come here. Well, it can’t hide forever – one day we will overhear it.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.

My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

There’ll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Value is what you get.