I like writing about biology, not doing it.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.

You're killing me, little human.

Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.Proverb

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.

We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or understand or explore.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

I believe war is the inevitable fruit of our economic system.

Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.