To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people (here I was still following Luria's example). Now that might sound inexcusably flip, but the fact is that you must always turn to people who are brighter than yourself.

Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

Michael Denton

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

William Godwin

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Vernor Vinge

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm so grateful for what Disney gave me and the experiences that I got, but at the end of the day, I can do so much more than what I did on that channel and in those movies.

Ashley Tisdale

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

James T. Mccay

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war --for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

John Lennon, Quoted in: Beatles

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

Herman Cain

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.

Alexandra Paul

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

Simone Weil

Poetry is the language of feeling.

W. Winter