Science grows like a weed every year..

Its not even probable, let alone scientifically proven, that HIV causes AIDS. If there is evidence that HIV causes AIDS, there should be scientific d….

I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that..

I like writing about biology, not doing it..

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess..

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions ….

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen..

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war t….

And all I knew about drugs was what I read in magazines like Time and Life. I learned that marijuana was a dangerous addictive drug and that I should….

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you….

Global warmers predict that global warming is coming, and our emissions are to blame. They do that to keep us worried about our role in the whole thi….

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes..

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet….

Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world..

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket..

There are a lot of people for whom psychedelics have been really beneficial. But I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. Some are just not ready but s….

Law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us..

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year..

I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that ….

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire..

Fish don't know much about water, and people didn't know much about air..