Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

What's another word for thesaurus?

You're born with the power of love, why you are looking for power of destruction?

Strategy without execution is hallucination.

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else.

Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh.

The pillars of Hercules of the United States are vulgarity and stupidity.

Great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.