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

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

Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.

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.

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

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.

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