It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new concept in terms of ideas which existed before.