I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

Enjoy life while you still have it. No one knows their time of departure from the face of this earth. Therefore, be sure to always seize every moment that comes to you, and make it very memorable.

True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in reality to begin with. Then it can go on from there under its own power.

In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings.

I think one of the things which always is forgotten in music class, is the first thing you have to do as a musician is you have to learn how to listen.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

You encourage people by seeing the good in them.