Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

If you are capable, but not available, nature will raise a person with lesser ability to replace you soon.

No matter what happens, you can make it. Like a fist tightened as hard as possible, you can always apply more.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel like I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

Time does not exist - we invented it

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

But that which is useful is the better.

It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did.

Management's job is to optimize the whole system.