He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

Your heart will always open again if you let it.

Forgive me for not loving how you deserve.With weak knees that in their grand gesture can only collapse instead of bow.

At the end of the dream, on the other side of the rainbow, there's only light.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

If we were to impose greater sanctions on economic sectors, I think we could have a significant impact on Putin.

A mother's love liberates.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

To reflect on everything in daily life is to nurture your buddha nature.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.