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.

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.

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

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.

Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

I like going out and I like being single, but a growing part of me would rather just stay home, cook food with someone I really like, and do nothing.

Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.

I think I'm a pretty right down the middle guy. I just think that's kind of who I am. I'm not afraid of my own journey.

The key function of banks is money creation, not intermediation.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.