As long as you're learning you're not old.

My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

If you ever have a new idea, and it's really new, you have to expect that it won't be widely accepted immediately. It's a long hard process.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

The Nobel Prize gives you an opportunity to make a fool of yourself in public.

New truths become evident when new tools become available.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

We must believe in ourselves or no one will believe in us.

In the past, few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.

Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.

We are one species out of a billion

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

Love is an act of imagination. For some of us, it will be the greatest creative triumph of our lives.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

Some of the ideas that come from the fringe of the far right are just so implausible that it is hard to take those ideas seriously.

There's no feeling as a musician better than being on stage, sharing music with strangers. People you have never met, singing along, and making that connection with somebody is so awesome.