When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months.

Solutions come through evolution. They come through asking the right questions, because the answers pre-exist. It is the questions that we must define and discover. You don't invent the answer-you reveal the answer.

The art of science is as important as so-called technical science. You need both. It's this combination that must be recognized and acknowledged and valued.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all life on earth would end. If all human beings disappeared from the earth, within 50 years all forms of life would flourish.

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.