Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air.

I'm not politically correct.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

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