Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

The greatest single achievement of nature to date was surely the invention of the molecule DNA.

It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.

I would send the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach into outer space on the Voyager spacecraft. But that would be boasting.

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!

See with a different eye, visualize with a colorful mind, manifest your thoughts with the energy within.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

Conditioning is my best weapon.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

How good you and I get at repenting will determine how good life is.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.