Quotes

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

The trouble is the field of science, medicine, universities, biotech companies - you name it - have been so splintered, layers, sub-divided, hacked that people can spend their entire career studying one tiny little cog of life.

I naively thought that we could have a molecular definition for life, come up with a set of genes that would minimally define life. Nature just refuses to be so easily quantified.

One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity.

The only 'afterlife' is what other people remember of you.

I hope I'll be remembered for my scientific contribution to understanding life and human life.

Now that we can read and write the genetic code, put it in digital form and translate it back into synthesized life, it will be possible to speed up biological evolution to the pace of social evolution.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

The pace of digitizing life has been increasing exponentially.

The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity.

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.

I am confident that life once thrived on Mars and may well still exist there today.

The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there.

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet.

I thought we'd just sequence the genome once and that would be sufficient for most things in people's lifetimes. Now we're seeing how changeable and adaptable it is, which is why we're surviving and evolving as a species.

When you have to go away from someone you love or vice-versa, whatever the reason, it really shatters your life.

Anything that you do in life, whether it's work or a relationship or marriage, you get into it with a lot of positivity.

When we went to Judy Davis and said, 'We want you to play Judy Garland in the mini-series 'Life With Judy Garland,' she was shocked, but we just had an instinct about her.

I was raised on an Indian reservation, and I didn't see a television set till I was 10, so it's not a part of my life.

Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be the white girl's best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.

Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.

I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.