When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

God wove a web of loveliness, Of clouds and stars and birds, But made not anything at all, So beautiful as words.

I ain't going to let nobody steal my dream.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

There is nothing you can't achieve if you help other people get what they want

I feel like a voodoo doll. It's grim. It's gross.

I meet a man with a thousand dollars and leave him with two; that's the meaning of subtraction.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

What planet are you from? Obviously Planet Insanity was missing a local, long-term resident.' (Nick)

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.