Are we being good ancestors?

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

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.

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

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.