I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When it is going well, it is like a quiet conversation with Nature. One asks a question and gets an answer, then one asks the next question and gets the next answer. An experiment is a device to make Nature speak intelligibly. After that, one only has to listen.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.