The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

A lie distorts the image of reality. It is a delusion of the human mind which can disrupt an individual's sense of what is morally right or wrong.

I write because I want to give strength to myself

Nothing is safe [in Lebanon], as simple as that.

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.