“Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organi...” — H. Robert Horvitz Quote

“Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed.”

“Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.”

“It was my father who - after, at age 15, I had attempted unsuccessfully to drive the family car using a 'borrowed' key and knocked down a wall of the garage - convinced me over the telephone not to run away from home and who then came home from work not to punish me but rather to console and comfort me.”

“There's a world of insights to be gained into human health and disease by understanding how gravity and space radiation influence biology.”

“We know from biology that new forms of organisms simulate their primitive form as closely as possible at first, even though obliged to exist under changed internal and external conditions.”

“Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.”