Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.
We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.
We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.
I have no military application in my research. You know, we are all involved into rehabilitation medicine.
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't.
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
There's a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.
To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.
When one thinks of golf and Scotland, the first thing that comes to mind is usually St. Andrews, especially the famed Old Course.
I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.
Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.
An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instantaneous solution to problems.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.
The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.
The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.
No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.
You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind.
