Agriculture as we know it needs to disappear. We can design better and healthier proteins than we get from nature.

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.

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

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.

THE SEASONS REMIND ME THAT I MUST KEEP CHANGING.

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel yourself into excellence.

Life means progress, and progress means suffering.

All I know is that when I needed McDonald’s, McDonald’s was there for me.

As the show [Dracula] goes on,Jonathan Harker gets darker and darker, and further into that side of it all. All of the worlds end up colliding and meshing together.

Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

I've always been a curious thinker. And now, as an adult, I can articulate it.

For the next inn he spurs amain, In haste alights, and skuds away, But time and tide for no man stay.