Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

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.

Product is an output of efforts, skills and time

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

Don't walk out of here. I can't lose you.

We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.

It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

Political Wire is one of the absolute must-read sites in the blogosphere.

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

I live on my gut instinct.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.