“People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, ...” — Jeffrey C. Hall Quote

“People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.”

“People always think I'm Jewish. Actually, I'm a lapsed Catholic.”

“A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.”

“They fail to recognize the broad biological principle that organic material is constantly being recycled. Everything has a time of being - a birth, a life span, and a death.”

“This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.”

“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.”