The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

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.

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?

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.

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

Quaintness is creepy. So let's maximize that.

You can never separate yourself from who you are. You bring your whole self to everything that you do.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you’re right there in love again.