What attracted me to immunology was that the whole thing seemed to revolve around a very simple experiment: take two different antibody molecules and compare their primary sequences. The secret of antibody diversity would emerge from that. Fortunately at the time I was sufficiently ignorant of the subject not to realise how naive I was being.
I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip Pullman. Somehow myths have returned as a serious subject. It used to be scorned. . . really scorned. It was part of a nursery tradition, and it was also rather tainted - but not in an immovable way - by the association with right-wing ideologies after the World Wars.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
It is so much better to make a big thing out of a little subject than to make a little thing out of a big one.
Past art is subject to change.
The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.
I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter
The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.
I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.
Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.
For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.
Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.
It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.
Abjection is above all ambiguity. Because, while releasing a hold, it does not radically cut off the subject from what threatens it --- on the contrary, abjection acknowledges it to be in perpetual danger.
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.