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?

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).

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

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.

Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. It’s all part of our path.

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.

Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.

Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.

God did not send a concept, an idea, or a virtue. He sent his Son. Follow the God of love, not love as your god.

I guess I just have bigger ovaries.

I got lot to do at a pretty young age in terms of emotionally challenging films. I did not do any fluff... fluff is not me.

If you don't use an image now you might have a place to put it in further down the line - and I have a lot of unfinished drawings.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.