I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

There were a lot of people, I found, whod rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think.

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

This coupling together of science with international peace, is, I think, particularly significant.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.

In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

There are two kinds of people who lose money: those who know nothing and those who know everything.

It's easier to learn things for life by the age of 12 and not the age of 18. This is just my guess.

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

Patients' lives are more important than embryos. I do want to avoid the use of embryos if possible.

The way you can understand all of the Social Media is as the creation of a new kind of public space.

Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

The variety of polyprenol phosphate sugars may turn out to be as large as that of sugar nucleotides.

We have entered the cell, the Mansion of our birth, and started the inventory of our acquired wealth.

Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

If you want toget the most outof a sketch, youneed to leave bigenough holes forthe imaginationto fit in.

The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

Teaching...can be likened to a conversation in which you listen to the speaker carefully before you reply.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

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