If biologists have ignored self-organization, it is not because self-ordering is not pervasive and profound. It is because we biologists have yet to understand how to think about systems governed simu...

I beg to differ on Charles Bukowski, who says nothing can save you, except writing. Sometimes, absolutely nothing will save you, not the nights you end up wasting waiting for something grand to happen...

Certain things need to be done again and again in life, but those things can be learned only in context, not as an abstraction. Different contexts must be provided in order to motivate students and to...

A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim,and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him.Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights,of powder-blasts in the...

Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

Be humble: have the courage to speak the truth.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

Was it possible to fall in love with the same man over and over again, every single day?

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat;...

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it tu...

The quickest way to a man's heart is through the fourth and fifth ribs.

The entire pre-Columbian literature of Mexico, a vast library of tens of thousands of codices, was carefully and systematically destroyed by the priests and friars who followed in the wake of the conq...

The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.

Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare, and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five abo...

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.