"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?"

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”

Source : Jane Goodall (1994). “With Love: Ten Heartwarming Stories of Chimpanzees in the Wild”, Scholastic Incorporated

“I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.”

“I've been an avid consumer of young adult literature since I was one, and I think some people leave that stuff behind when they become old adults, but I never did. I was always interested in the fantasy world created in those novels.”

“Why argue about things you can't prove?”

“Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals, perhaps we humans shall come to understand each other.”

“Physics Works, and I'm still alive!”

Source : "Top of the iTunes chart: meet the professor who's making physics cool" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2007.

“I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.”

“You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.”