“At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in my life.”

“The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries...”

“It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and p...”

“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”

“Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get th...”

“Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.”

“I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.”

“I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.”

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

“Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But its never too late to get it back.”

“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”