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

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.

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.

You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren't. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don't think your way into becoming yourself.

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

Of course, experience strengthens one later.

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.

If you think I would have gone to war the way George Bush did, don't vote for me.

The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.

Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.