Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Trying to understand fundamental processes that take place as organisms develop and how their various cells interact with one another - one can see what happens with those cells by asking questions about the fundamentals of biology.

I think that our future has lost that capital F we used to spell it with. The science fiction future of my childhood has had a capital F - it was assumed to be an American Future because America was the future. The Future was assumed to be inherently heroic, and a lot of other things, as well.

I worked at chemistry and developing a style of play on both sides of the ball and studied success and winning.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.