My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.

If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.

Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.

I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.

The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.

Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.

In the end, what counts is what you do.

Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded ear.

Those who want rain, must also accept the mud.

Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.

Any noun can be verbed.

There should be no political prisoners in a democratic country.

Use the voice that you were given. Shout what you believe in from the top of your lungs. Never let anyone quiet you.

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.