The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during which prebotic evolution occurred.

The world is richer than it is possible to express in any single language.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

The main character of any living system is openness.

Entropy is the price of structure.

The more we know about our universe, the more difficult it becomes to believe in determinism.

(1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

The real is only one realization of the possible.

It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance.

I cannot squeeze the stars

You are all I ever need.

I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, 'My dad can beat up your dad.' I'd say 'Yeah? When?'

I am not a clone of Sarah Palin. I have my own thoughts.

Can I wear your blazer?

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.