I hope this will change the city's image, and make people feel this is a place where biotech is and wants to be.

We suddenly have the global view, the view of the Earth from the moon, and it's pretty thrilling.

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response.

Clearly, there's tremendous untapped potential among the world's scientists to address diseases of the developing world.

He has taken political stands that you can imagine some of his donors or board members might have found difficult, but that has not impaired his ability to run Caltech, ... He has been very bold in his defense of science and the ways in which the current [Bush] administration may be limiting the country's scientific strength.

This is a watershed event in the history of biology. It is the first complete blueprint of a complex organism.