Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you have but also for the bad you don't!]
The body is a bundle of careful compromises.
If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.
Bob Marley is a huge influence. I love reggae music, but I also love the purpose of the songs he writes and the style of the music - it takes your worries away and makes you feel good, and I think that's what music is about.
The fellow is either a madman or a poet.
I think I can fix the problems in Washington that people desperately want to see fixed.
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.