Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.

I have come to think that capital punishment should be abolished.

It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.

Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

We claim Islam as Deen or a complete way of life.

I love to play hockey. I'm a huge hockey fan and I love to play as well.