- “If we knew what it is we were doing, it would not be called research. Would it?” – Albert Einstein
- “Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a sketchy understanding of life itself.” – Francis Crick (1988), What Mad Pursuit: A personal View of Scientific Discovery, p. 61
- 天將降大任於斯人也，必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓其體膚。- 孟子