I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

What is reading but silent conversation.

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.