Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

The American empire should be destroyed.

Don't get involved with non-physical beings. This current pastime, this rage, is dangerous. Many of these people who are channeling entities are going to become very sick, physically and mentally

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

We look in... Germany for a superstar. We began with 10,000 people, which applied. From these 10,000, 100 was selected. The jury is unbelievably competent.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

I'm going to put every aspect of myself out into the world and try to convey it through photography.