No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

Never stay still, you'll end up with roots.

she thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night

Do you feel loved by God because you believe he makes much of you, or because you believe he frees you and empowers you to enjoy making much of him?

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

A lot of people my age are so hyper. I like hyper people.

Love-making is an art which must be studied.

We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?