But I Felt It Necessary To Be

With Time, Many Of The Facts I Learned Were Forgotten But I Never Lost The Excitement Of Discovery.

Looking Back, I Realize That Nurturing Curiosity And The Instinct To Seek Solutions Are Perhaps The Most Important Contributions Education Can Make.

Fears Of Creating New Kinds Of Plagues Or Of Altering Human Evolution Or Of Irreversibly Altering The Environment Were Only Some Of The Concerns That Were Rampant.

Paradoxically, No Such Embargo Exists For The Drugs And Therapies That Have Revolutionized The Treatment Of Serious Diseases Although Many Of Them Were Created With The Same Technologies.

But I Felt It Necessary To Be Part Of The War Effort And I Enlisted In The Navy To Be A Flyer.