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I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.
Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.
If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
Greatest discoveries come from passionate scientists with naive curiosity
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying.
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
Do what you can to do what you ought, and leave hoping and fearing alone.
The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.
We don't have enough data about how lifestyle decisions impact our health.
There's a whole group of people who are 100-plus and have no disease. Why?
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
I already get 10 job offers a year, which is more than I can handle anyway.
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.
There is more to biology than rats, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis, and E. coli.
Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist.
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
It is important to democratize personal genetics and make it more accessible.
I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.