You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

I don't know if the optimists or the pessimists are right. But, the optimists are going to get something done.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

He that overcometh shall inherit all things. God has no poor children.

Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

He who despises life is his life's master.

When I hear excuses muttered from another, I'm reminded to stop repeating those of my own.

I think people are interested in anything that's a little bigger than life and that's colorful and - you know, what they like? They like fairy tales for grownups.