With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

In this avaricious world, even a beggar needs money in his bowl, to be heard.

Love is your only wealth. Everything else is just a mirage.

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind's and God's.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.

Obamacare ruined and destroyed or set in motion the ruination and destruction of the American health care system.