 Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess. |
| People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so. |
| Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us. |
| PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV. |
| Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year. |
| Art is subject to arbitrary fashion. |
| The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me. |
| Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world. |
| I'm really optimistic in the mornings. |
| We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. |
| Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. |
| Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there. |
| The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it. |
| In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse. |
| Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this. |
| We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon. |
| I'm not politically correct. |
| Science grows like a weed every year. |
| They can't pooh-pooh me now, because of who I am. |
| My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. |
