I think the real problem is it's easy to persuade young kids of particular kinds of ideas, because they are flexible.
To manipulate the immune system, you need to find the key bottlenecks that govern the system. The T-cell is an absolute bottleneck.
Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.
If you really want to study evolution, you've got go outside sometime, because you'll see symbiosis everywhere!
I spent my childhood in northern New York State, and like many kids, bugs and other critters fascinated me.
Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.
You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.
It's possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don't know if that's true, but we can't rule that out.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
