"It is always character first and story second."

“The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.”

“Failure feelings - fear, anxiety, lack of self-confidence - do not spring from some heavenly oracle. They are not written in the stars. They are not holy gospel. Nor are they intimations of a set and decided fate which means that failure is decreed and decided. They originate from your own mind.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.”

Source : Foreword for "Discovering the Brain" by Sandra Ackerman, p. iii, 1992.

“Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.”

“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”

“But it must not be forgotten that ... glass and porcelain were manufactured, stuffs dyed and metals separated from their ores by mere empirical processes of art, and without the guidance of correct scientific principles.”

Source : David M. Knight, Justus von Liebig (1998). “The Development of Chemistry, 1789-1914: Familiar letters on chemistry”, p.2, Taylor & Francis

“I don't believe in creation by committee. I think it's impossible.”