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

[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.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

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

Our goal should be to understand our differences.