I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.
Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
Teeth actually turn out to be one of a couple of good sources of ancient DNA. The teeth, actually the enamel, is quite good at preserving the DNA, so it is a bit of time capsule so to speak.
The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.
Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.
Africa is progressing but maybe not in the way you think it is. Even if the overall picture looks good, we must all remain vigilant and not get complacent.
If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.
Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.
It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
...it was regarded as almost outside the proper interest of an analyst to give systematic attention to a person's real experiences.
I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.
In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
