In the late 1970s, when I was a professor at Caltech, I pioneered four instruments for analyzing genes and proteins that revolutionized modern biology - and one of these, the automated DNA sequencer, enabled the Human Genome Project.
It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
When I look at the human brain I'm still in awe of it.
Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.
Any notable moments spent on a subway usually do nothing more than expose human awfulness at its most pronounced.
In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
I am human, and, yeah, I have very bad days.
I'm just baffled in the 21st century we as human beings are still dropping bombs on each other as a means to resolve issues.
I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.
Holding people presumed to be innocent in jail pre-trial simply because they cannot afford to pay their bail extracts huge human and financial costs.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.
The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.
I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.
Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.
