For me too, the periodic table was a passion. ... As a boy, I stood in front of the display for hours, thinking how wonderful it was that each of those metal foils and jars of gas had its own distinct personality.

If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

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

We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated. It wastes a tremendous amount of time - especially for women, it's particularly badly timed. If they're doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.