Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

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.

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 am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

My dad always says that kindness is our religion and if we treat everybody the way we would like to be treated, the world would be a better place.

POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

When your emotion finds a true expression in other person, he's your soul mate. Never leave him!

I don't believe that the course of anyone's lifetime has ever been as unerring as that of the rising and setting sun, but I know many lives that have been just as inspiring.

What good is a reputation not put to good use.

Be your money's master, not its slave.

Great investments don't just knock on the door and say "buy me".

I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.

We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease, and with many other conditions, such as diabetes and infertility.

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.