"If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but..."
"If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it."
"Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built."
"The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'"
"In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it."
"Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness."
"There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further."
"I usually turn over when ads appear on television. But - very rarely - I am gripped by a particularly beautiful one, and wonder if art historians of the future will point to these televisual delights as our best art."
"My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side."
"With every technology, there will be misuses of it."
"We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days."
"As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses."
"My entry into the field of hydrogen came as a great surprise. President Bush of the United States was interested in hydrogen for energy applications, and I was asked to chair a committee on hydrogen for the Department of Energy."
"What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production."
"Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified."
"In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority."
"The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus."
"What the immune system of man has in its advanced development is what we call immunological memory, so that once it sees something for the first time, when it sees it the second or the third time, it can respond against it in a way that's much more accelerated than when it sees it for the first time."
"We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds."
"The bottom-up, loosely-coupled, bilateral and multi-stakeholder practices that have created the network of networks we call the Internet allow for a broad range of business models."
"There can be no truce between science and religion."
"Jobs cannot be created if innovation is restricted to large corporates."
"Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror."
"I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot."
"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."
"The vast majority of the online crime cases, we don't even know which continent the attacks are coming from. And even if we are able to find online criminals, quite often there is no outcome. The local police don't act, or if they do, there's not enough evidence, or for some reason we can't take them down."
