Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change while you're working on it - and I think writing is the same way.

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

Like I'm always telling my brothers, if you gonna go into history, you can't do it with a hate attitude. You got to remember, times was different.

But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal.

I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.

Light is life.Life is love.Love is divine

The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

If I were white I could capture the world.

You don't help your enterprise with a policy of protection.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

I am in the penitentiary. The only thing that I do is my time.