Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.
The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.
You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don't believe that.
The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.
It is not necessarily true that expensive experiments are not worthwhile doing but there are plenty of rather cheap experiments which are certainly worth doing.
Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous.
In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.
I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results.
Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
I've always been melancholic. At a party, everyone would be looking at the glittering chandeliers and I'd be looking at the waitress's cracked shoes.
Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.
The best way to find out what we really need is to get rid of what we don't.
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.
Francis Ford Coppola - A man climbs a mountain and they call him a hero. I climb mountains that aren't even there.
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
