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

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.

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.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind.

Life is a lesson, when you could get it over by your hands, means you just learned it well.

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising-group.

It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

If you are in the camp I am, one place where science and faith could touch each other is in the investigation of supposedly miraculous events.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!