I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.

The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.

Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

Cantwell is so extreme that she doesn't see anything wrong with 11-year-old girls getting Plan B without a prescription. She is more liberal than Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and more liberal than President Obama. That is pretty extreme - a lot farther to the Left than most Washingtonians are comfortable with.