The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we’ve reached a point where we’ve discovered most of the things. I’m going tell you right now: Please don’t despair.

The philosopher is a person who refuses no pleasures which do not produce greater sorrows, and who knows how to create new ones.

In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

Everybody needs somebody sometimes.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

For every seeing soul, there are two absorbing facts - I, and the abyss.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.