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

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

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

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real opportunities to change the world for the better.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.