The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

It is said to await certainty is to await eternity.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.