Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side.

Individuals are not stable things, they are fleeting. Chromosomes too are shuffled into oblivion, like hands of cards soon after they are dealt. But the cards themselves survive the shuffling. The cards are the genes. The genes are not destroyed by crossing-over, they merely change partners and march on. Of course they march on. That is their business. They are the replicators and we are their survival machines. When we have served our purpose we are cast aside. But genes are denizens of geological time: genes are forever.

Richard Dawkins

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

Lindsey Graham

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

Philip Warren Anderson

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Italo Calvino

There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of job opportunities.

Paul Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

Robert Burton

From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

Angela Merkel

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Ernest Hemingway

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

Fran Lebowitz

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau

I love insects. They are amazing.

Andrea Arnold