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.
I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
Science grows like a weed every year.
Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself.
We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.
I'm not driven by being understood.
You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
I'm not politically correct.
If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
I went to high school in Columbia. I met my first wife, Richards, whom I married while I was working on a B.S. in chemistry at Georgia Tech. She bore Louise, and I studied. I learned most of the useful technical things - math, physics, chemistry - that I now use during those four years.
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.
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
I'm really optimistic in the mornings.
