[Who owns the patent on this vaccine?] Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?

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.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.

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