The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

The source of this energy is the sun's radiation.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have.

And the truth will set you free...

When the years are dying in the arms of your life, the earth is in pain moving around the sun.

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

Those who excel in war first cultivate their own humanity and and maintain their laws and institutions. By these means they make their governments invincible.