I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

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.

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 am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Prayer is not an option but a necessity.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

I think that becoming a parent kind of made me try to be more responsible. And it made me much more stressful.

What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.

I know for sure that nothing matters.