It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

No truth could ever fear me.

Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.

All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.

If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.

People are trading distance for dollars.

I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

It's terrifying to be the lead. There's a moment of excitement, and then pure terror.