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

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.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

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.