Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

Loneliness teaches and shows you the real and unreal and such things that one can never understand and even imagine living with others.

At the end of all things, why do lovers break up? Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

His life has been like a ballpark, hasn't it? All lines, structure, and rules, never changing. But now he's been hit over the wall into unknown territory.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

In every difficult situation there is a door to opportunity for which optimism is the only key.