When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
We have to know who we are and know what we believe.
Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.
I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.
I read a ton of paper every day. I read the newspapers, I read my intelligence materials, I read all the briefing materials. I read the newspaper in hard copy.
I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.
If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.
The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years.
A man who loves you the most is the man who tells you the most truth about yourself.