Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

It so cliché to say some guys and girls need to step up, but there can be bigger stars and bigger names when people get their chance.

The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age.

My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Prayer is the instrument of miracles.

Forwards are the gnarled and scarred creatures who have a propensity for running into and bleeding all over each other.

We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.