Gripping famous quotes

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

You could write the entire history of science in the last 50 years in terms of papers rejected by Science or Nature.

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

Fiction leaves us so much work to do, allows the individual so much input; you have to see, you have to hear, you have to taste the madeleine, and while you are seemingly passive in your chair, you have to travel.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

Campaigns and primaries can get ugly. There are always messy squabbles.