Carl Zimmer Quote

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The intelligence we will create from the reverse-engineering of the brain will have access to its own source code and will be able to rapidly improve itself in an accelerating iterative design cycle....

Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

A black hole holds all the colors of the universe.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to list.

You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your windows. So that...

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...