"Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better."

"Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do."

"The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland."

"As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge."

"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature."