[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

Give yourself and others the gift of your brilliance to deliver a more compelling and memorable presentation.

... many a suicide might be averted if the person contemplating it could find the proper assistance when such a crisis impends.

The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

I insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in their own way, always allowing to others the right to work out their lives in their own way, too.

I do not know how to make poems

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

We have dared to be free. Let us dare to be so by ourselves and for ourselves.

Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !

I like people-watching and getting inspiration from the unique people who dont follow any fashion tides. From 12-year-olds who have full freedom, to 86-year-old ladies with a ton of class.

I get up, because I’m supposed to, but if it were up to me, I’d stay in my seat for the rest of time.