Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

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.

My job is to help people see what I see. If it's of value, fine. And, if it's not of value, then at least I've done what I can do.