As the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane had described it in 1923, once the power to control genes had been harnessed, "no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

It isn't creativity that fades, but stamina: science is an endurance sport

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a radical change in human fate.

Connectedness. One thing leads to another. Often in unexpected ways.

The poor will always be with you.

The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then we'll see the rising of the moon.

I believe when women succeed America succeeds!

A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.

The little cannot bee great, unlesse he devoure many. [The little cannot be great unless he devour many.]

No dignity without distance.

What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

Nothing is over until there's something more decisive than your own thoughts.

Christian holiness does not being sinless, but rather it means struggling not to give in and always getting up after every fall.