I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.

You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.

Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.