Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

Winston Churchill once said "Never Give Up", little pause..... "Never Give Up" and again pause.... "Never Give Up". This 9 Words, said about success (Bob Proctor from Confidence!)

You walk between gods and men. Your choices are only between despair and hope!

The safest thing to do when in danger is to be too stupid to know you are in danger.

People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.

There is an English saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Women often become these tough ones.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate.