If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

It's better to hate someone in the beginning rather than end up hating someone after loving.

Lincoln matured best in sorrow.

I am a writer, period!

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

Nothing's faster than the Internet.

I'm on a 24 hour champagne diet. Spillin while I'm sippin I encourage you to try it.

My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

If there's a field you're interested in, do some research. If you can, go to school and study it to really understand it from its core.

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.