It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'

Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier.

There are kids going into chemistry and biology because of 'CSI.'

We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

The Greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.