We're scientists; we're curious about how nature works, but we're also do-gooders. It's fantastic to think that the same experiments we'd do to understand how information gets into cells could have a...

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

You have little to no response to AAV the first time your body sees it. If you used the same vector twice you would want to bump up immunosuppression. I believe there will be many new ways to deliver...

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit...

When you think about the scale of human populations all over the world and the fact that there's so much here, really, the only way to be able to visualize that is to pull back in space... It allows...

I'm honored and humbled to win the Nobel Prize. I thank all my friends for the support and assistance throughout my life.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

The process of speciation is completed with the cessation of genetic exchange.

Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks.

The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved...

A cactus doesn't live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn't killed it yet.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

Most astronomical work has to do with things that are very, very far away and don't affect our lives very much.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can...

The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

Power is the by-product of understanding.

If you think of feelings you have when you are awed by something - for example, knowing that elements in your body trace to exploded stars - I call that a spiritual reaction, speaking of awe and...

We live on this speck called Earth - think about what you might do, today or tomorrow - and make the most of it.