“I am just the biologist; I dont require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I dont have real answers, it is...”

“That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.”

“Theyd never really been my friends; I didnt cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.”

“I didnt answer her. All I could have said was I dont know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.”

“I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.”

“Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?”

“Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.”

“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”

“If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“You can be used by someone for their aims when you are not aware of your true being”