As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

I long for the day when I hear the musicwithout any song.

The only permanent thing in this world is change.

It is in the perfect union of two hearts that complete and total marriage consists.

When Jesus needed friends, they left Him.

Where you see yourself is more important than where you actually are!

The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.

Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Investors will sort of like write the check and then, despite a lot of promises, don't usually do that much; sometimes they do.