As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

I don't want to try to make any kind of a forecast, ... I don't think I have any information to base that on right now. Our focus is on what we in the Senate are doing.

We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again.