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

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

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

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."

Poetry is the scholar's art.

So Shakespeare stole

I've been running like this since I was seven.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.

Truth crushed to earth will rise again.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

The trick is: you have to feel good for no reason.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.