Every word decides a question between power and liberty.
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (. . . ) you nail it down (. . . ). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".
No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs
A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.
The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.
I think it's about time people stopped judging women on their appearance and more on their intellect. Like you can appreciate my style without having to appreciate my weight. It's not actually mutually exclusive. I just get frustrated because just because I exist in this shape doesn't mean that I'm like advocating it.
I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.
There's an old blues refrain: I begged for water, you gave me gasoline.
There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But these are difficult issues because they can't ever be entirely psychiatric. They're inevitably political as well. I personally believe that ultimately ridding the country of a dangerous president or one who's unfit is ultimately a political matter, but that psychological professionals can contribute in valuable ways to that decision.