Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man.

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

Study: concentration of the mind on whatever will ultimately put something in your pocket.

Everyone is a threat, and anyone can be beat at any given moment. No one is invincible.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.