Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I do, really, is the math, and other people have the ideas.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

Life is nature's way to give mind oportunities it wouldn't otherwise had.

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do.

The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines.