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

The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around.

I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience.

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.

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

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.

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