Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.
In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.
The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.
In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce the mysterious complexities that occur in a whole cell.
One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level, they behave in a certain way as if they're mechanical machinery.
We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.
Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.
Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
Democrats talk about programs like Social Security or Medicare, but it's not clear to most voters what Democrats' core moral values are.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
When opponents of evolution object that human beings are not mere apes, they are correct. We are also part bee.
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
