Research is four things: brains with which to think, eyes with which to see, machines with which to measure and, fourth, money.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.

The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.