Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

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.

Polls consistently show that the majority of Americans favour research using embryonic stem cells and yet politicians continue to pander to the outspoken religious minority that is hampering efforts to develop this potentially valuable technology.

A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.