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Our biggest single theme is trying to make the NIH work better with the same amount of money.
A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.
The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.
Having a diverse suite of U.S.-manned spaceflight systems to access space is inherently robust.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.
Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother.
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.
Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.
No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.
While I do not have a sweet tooth, I am a fan of the dark chocolate ice cream at Baskin Robbins.
In some instances, a gender imbalance is indeed a manifestation of sexism. In others, it is not.
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity.
There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.
As a youngster, I never dreamed there could be a career actually earning a living writing music.
Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it.
That so many binary or quasi-binary KBOs exist came as a real surprise to the research community.
Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.
Lipitor is one of the most researched medicines. I'm glad I take Lipitor, as a doctor, and a dad.
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
We made more than just scientific discoveries... we rediscovered how much people love exploration.
Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.
The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
It is the man who carefully advances step by step...who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.