“We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.”
“Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?”
“I think Newton would be the greatest scientist who ever lived.”
“There's no reason why we cannot become smarter, more perfect, and maybe even live longer.”
“For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.”
“If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.”
“Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear.”
“I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.”
“We need a theory that goes before the Big Bang, and that's String Theory. String Theory says that perhaps two universes collided to create our universe, or maybe our universe is butted from another universe leaving an umbilical cord. Well, that umbilical cord is called a wormhole.”
“Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time to produce so little.”