Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

Science moves with the spirit of an adventure characterized both by youthful arrogance and by the belief that the truth, once found, would be simple as well as pretty.

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers.

Never be the brightest person in the room.

Keep your focus laser-locked on what you want to create in your life.

I knew in that moment, I would never love anyone in my life the way I loved Evan Mathews.

Do first what you don’t want to do most.

Fame or infamy, either one is preferable to being forgotten when you have passed from this realm.

I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

I smile and think; This is my job, this is what I do for a living, and its what I’ve always wanted

Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.