Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

In times of war, skepticism can be just cause for execution.

To realise one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for.

A sworn sworn owes his liege our service and obedience, but this is madness.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

Acheron. When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.