If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
Water is our most precious resource, but we waste it, just as we waste other resources, including oil and gas.
Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.
Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.
We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or oppor...
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.
There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he ...
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
