But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

If you can't love yourself the world will only hate you.

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

Big business always serve - directly or indirectly - the masses.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

Donald Trump has got a big heart. He loves his family, he loves America.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

His eyes, I’d long since discovered, could be as eloquent and expressive as his pen. The messages they sent me now hardly seemed decent for a public setting.