I am basically turning football players into sprinters for a while. When we first talked about it, I didn't know how my expertise could be used.
Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.
I have a son, who is a. . . not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration
DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.
I've been calling plays in the huddle since I was seven.
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the ocean. There are problems with air pollution around the country that we need to deal with, and around the world. We have a great many problems to overcome, so I work on a lot of different boards trying to help in those important areas.