The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

It's like someone took the darkness of the universe and put it into your eyes... You became a slave to the monsters living in you. You were light, but now you allow it be seen.

I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and never slip back, and never be free of myself again.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Love is that orbit of the restless soulWhose circle grazes the confines of space,Bounding within the limits of its raceUtmost extremes.

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

John the Baptist never performed any miracles. Yet, he was greater than any of the Old Testament prophets.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.