I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.