I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

How does the moon feel as it sees the ocean lap at your shores? The eternal pain of knowing you are there but forever out of reach...

A problem well-defined is a problem half solved.

Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen men fairly breathe it and do not know it.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

I don't mind not having recognition. If it happens, fine, but it doesn't bother me that it's not there.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.

It's now time to organize and move forward. It's time for deep thinking, reformation of the Democratic Party.