And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should stay away from it.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.