We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

There are billions of people on the earth and there are billions of earths, billions of universes. It is endless.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.

Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread?

... of the two kinds of order, the conscious and the unconscious order, only one is real. It's the order in the deep hidden places.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.