Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Denis Waitley

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

Abraham Lincoln

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

Cynthia Ozick

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Carl Schurz

Molecular machines display a key signature or hallmark of design, namely, irreducible complexity. In all irreducibly complex systems in which the cause of the system is known by experience or observation, intelligent design or engineering played a role in the origin of the system... We find such systems within living organisms.

Scott A. Minnich

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Jennifer Lopez

A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its place in the order of the universe.

Richard Livingstone

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

James Agate

...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.

Jan Struther

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection.

Oscar Wilde

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Mahatma Gandhi