I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

I have faith that science is a good thing. Seriously, I'd say that I am very much in awe of nature. In fact, I think to some extent, "awe" was a word that was almost invented for scientists.

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

I think something very simple that everybody can do is they can participate in medical research as subjects. Personal genome project, for example, will take on as many subjects as we can find.

We might want to figure out what are the positive effects of autism - mild cases.

The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.

Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.

When you healed this tree, I felt like the leaves waved and made gentle sounds. Maybe the tree was saying thank you.

In adamantine chains shall Death be bound, And Hell's grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound.

Don't accept excuses; totally deny the status quo.

Mr. Chairman, I think the record should show that for the first time since McKinley, we have a Republican president worth shooting, and I think that's a good sign.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

We're all who we are endlessly.

I define art as a work created by a human that has a unique point of view and discovers something that was not there before.

Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.