Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

Going through fear is one thing, being beyond it is another.

Monsieur, you must be mad!Box Five can never be hadFor money, love or the world ...

You don’t tell a boy that he is a boy. You simply act like a man.

Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.