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

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

We cannot hope to either understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.

Most of the papers which are submitted to the Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it is possible. Those which are impossible to understand are usually published.

People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

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