Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

I know I'm the guy others will lean on.