The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.
Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.
I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.
I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.
There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do.
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.
Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.
You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.
AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.
