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.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.