I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.

The media always tries to make everything into a disaster, but it's mostly rubbish.

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

[John Wheeler] rejuvenated general relativity; he made it an experimental subject and took it away from the mathematicians

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.