I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

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

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

Remember: we’re drowning in information, but we’re starving for wisdom.

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

In one kiss, you'll know all I haven't said.

No matter how ill we may be nor how low we may have fallen we should not change identity with any other person.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.