One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, even man.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.

There aren't too many priceless feelings on earth that could equate to the feeling that comes with shinning the light of manifestation on your true passion in life.

If Aphrodite had an avatar on earth, it was her. It was her- the Holy Grail men keep searching all through their lives!- O Amor

these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them.

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.