My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

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.

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.

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

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