This was the missing link in Darwin's Logic: reproductive incompatibility, ultimately derived from genetic incompatibility, drove the origin of novel species.

As the geneticist J.B.S. Haldane had described it in 1923, once the power to control genes had been harnessed, "no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

It isn't creativity that fades, but stamina: science is an endurance sport

Gene, protein, function, and fate were strung in a chain: one chemical alteration in one base pair in DNA was sufficient to "encode" a radical change in human fate.

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

As I grew older and when I became wiser, I realized that not only are we made of molecules, we are also governed and ruled by them. We are just molecular slaves in this vast limitless creation.

You can't turn the ball over and expect to win.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details.

I didn't choose poetry: poetry chose me.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.