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.

What people think of as the moment of discovery is really the discovery of the question.

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.

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.

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

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