Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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.

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

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'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and party, cause the next day when you get out of bed, the meter goes back to zero again.

Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

We urgently need an integrated progressive political agenda if we are to have foundations for a more equitable, sustainable, caring world.

I've attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy.