Everything in my life was luck.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

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.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.

Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true

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.