“We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active…” — Kary Mullis

My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

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.

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