""Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

"I think the concept of the sea is very important"

"I think it's important to do great work"

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has"

"I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature"

"I think one of the most important things in life is to be curious and always be learning"

"The truth is more important than the facts"