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

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.

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.

Children and cats are the best machines of fun!

One realizes the immortality of true love only after the lover dies

How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

Relationships are nine parts intuition, one part madness.

When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

Well, you know, first of all, let me just say that I am a proud member of the NRA and have been, and I'm a lifetime member and will always be.

I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.

In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie.