If you just focus on the smallest details, you will never get the big picture right.
Don't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.
Life is a process of evolution and anyone who thinks the current world order is OK does not get what evolution is all about.
In the end, what counts is what you do.
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
The wellness and prevention market will outgrow the health care market.
For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.
My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful.
I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
New ideas require new structures.
Cloning interferon was not something I wanted to get into.