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 like writing about biology, not doing it.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

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.

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.

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