"Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat."

"A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was."

"There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we're lifetime baby-making machines. Women's reproductive abilities start to wane when they're as young as 35. Men? We're good to go pretty much till we're dead."

"More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes."

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."

"Strive today so that tomorrow may stand upon solid ground. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."