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.

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

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.

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.

Take your desires for reality!" can be understood as the ultimate slogan of power.

Good times make the bad times better.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

Life is full of surprises, isn't it?

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

I gave thee what could not be heard What had not been given before The beat of my heart I gave !

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

Hate misleads, fear distorts and love blinds.