Quotes About Progress

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Everything is a process... some of our eating habits consist of things we can't change, but if we modify it a little and put some exercise in there, we can really make a difference.

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

I think cooks that are just interested in molecular gastronomy are cooks that will never be chefs.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.

You have to learn from bad moments.

In a season you can have good moments and others not so good.

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.

A good beginning is like a honeymoon; it gets over soon. The challenge is in keeping up the momentum.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.

I do feel my work has momentum.

My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

I feel like I've gotten so lucky and gotten to do such cool things with such cool folks. It's really great. You definitely want that momentum to keep going, for sure.

When you're on a roll, you want to stay busy - you want to keep that momentum going.

L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

Momentum is everything in this league.