You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

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.

There is no firm reason to anticipate that the intellectual capacities of peoples geographically separated in their evolution should prove to have evolved identically. Our wanting to reserve equal powers of reason as some universal heritage of humanity will not be enough to make it so.

Science that leads over the horizon depends on gathering the best minds and enabling them to do what the best minds naturally seek to do: pursue the most thrilling questions of the time.

People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

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