“I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from ...” — Bruce Beutler Quote

“I felt I ought not to be wasting time, and I hurried to graduate from high school to enroll at UCSD. I also hurried to finish college, to go on to higher studies. By the time I was in my teens, I had a strong sense of mission, wanting to discover something important or solve a major problem in biology or medicine.”

“Science is far from the center of the world for most people: even for many with highly sophisticated tastes, interests, and accomplishments.”

“I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.”

“Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.”

“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.”

“The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.”