I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

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.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

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.

My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.