What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.
I watch Jon Stewart because I need to laugh. Otherwise, life gets too serious. Besides that, I don't watch any news.
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that's here.
There's no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.
I'm not sure the Russians would be happy that their iconic wooly mammoth has North American origins.
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.
The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print.
If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.
Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
