“You've got to go for what you love and not look back 30 years, 40 year...” — Michael Rosbash Quote

“You've got to go for what you love and not look back 30 years, 40 years later and say, 'I never tried.' You got to try.”

“I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while also engaging students in the process of discovery. This is a very special - perhaps unique - university.”

“Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.”

“Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.”

“Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered.”

“My first world title fight, it surprisingly came so fast, but we knew it would come sooner or later.”