It has been suggested at various times that I should start an operation in the United Kingdom but - bearing in mind my age and medical history - I think this would be not a very sensible way to go forward.
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy a...
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.
To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.
About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.
I am not going to speculate about the emotions that might be involved in avian infidelity.
I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
É preciso que a realidade em mim seja já pura invenção para que eu a reconstrua, para que eu a cante.
