"Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow."

"Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction."

"A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway."

"A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"Everything in food is science. The only subjective part is when you eat it."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"The universe speaks in the silent dialect of universal natural laws."