"I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us."

“I'm a bit of a workaholic.”

“If you are born into a family with little money but a lot of love, you will find yourself more content than one who is born with a silver spoon and an empty home.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.

“Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.”

“All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.”

Source : José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

“I'm a biologist who has been interested in the biological roots of cognitive phenomena”

Source : "From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being" by D. Rudrauf, Biol Res 36: 27-65, 2003.

“When I was a boy, I naively thought that this thing called happiness would be something I would wake up to find every day once I could smoke, drink and fornicate.”

Source : Jeffrey Bernard (2002). “Reach for the Ground”, p.109, Gerald Duckworth & Co

“A close inspection discovers an empirical impossibility to be inherent in the idea of evolution.”

“Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.”