If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.

All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

Human beings have enormous resilience.