To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

God would not rub so hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's garments.