To die is poignantly bitter but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature on evolution what was known about it biologically just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular scientific view of the world.

Beware the sleeping dragon. For when she awakes the Earth will shake [On China].

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

We keep moving forward opening new doors and doing new things because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.