The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

[He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment

The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open." Have you been watching Oprah again?

There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.

I do appreciate that the most important thing as manager is to get good results.

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.