About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.

I appreciate my role as an actor much more after I direct because it's just easier.

I would much rather have 1,000 visitors click over to my website via a podcast interview that I’ve done on someone else’s website than have 1,000 search result visitors from Google. Anyday.

That's my entire weekend. I had plans" "A Vampire Dairies marathon is not plans." She looked at me like I lost my mind. "Have you even seen the Salvatore brothers? Holy mother of gingersnaps.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

I particularly don't want to play unmotivated behavior.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

Women, girls and young ladies tend to be as good or better at math than boys, but you didn't think that either.