“It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.”

“The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.”

“Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“What we do belongs to what we are and what we are is what becomes of us. ”

“None of Us is as Good as All of Us.”

“Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.”