As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

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.

I never want to be the type of person remembered for vanity or materialism

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

I do not believe in a mixture of good and evil in the world, or in myself. All is Good.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

The depth of John Candy's talent did surprise me. He was one of my all-time favorite leading men.

Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate.

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

Make your service systems so strong that everyone looks like a genius.