I'm not politically correct.

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.