Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

One of the greatest gifts science has brought to the world is continuing elimination of the supernatural.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.