If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's