As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

Retarding the aging process would be therapy and enhancement because it would mean defeating diseases and because it would extend our life span.

Geographic boundaries really begin to disappear with the Internet.

We're all going to eventually, even in the developed world, going to have to lose everything that we love. When you're beginning to rot a little bit, all of the videos crammed into your head, all of the extensions that extend your various powers, are going to being to seem a little secondary.

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

In any 'big science' enterprise, like planetary exploration, where you must work in big teams of similarly driven people, it is important also to know how to work alongside others even when they may be your fiercest competitors.

I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.