Life is a DNA software system.

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.

Come on, this is a real adventure I have here, screamed Mikolay again, this time more impatiently.I think someone is singing inside the wardrobe. Can you hear that?

When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.

I'm only interested in winning ball games and I can't be worrying about whether the sun's out or the moon's out.

Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"

I tell my daughter Nyssa, you should respect my work and I will also respect yours when you grow up, "Work is worship" is what I have told her.

The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.