The crucial difference, though, is that there are vaccines for biological weapons, while there are no vaccines for explosives.

[...] for every terrorist trying to engineer a biological weapon there are a thousand researchers working on a cure.

 

The ghost map [251/299]

(Steven Johnson, 2006, Penguin Books)

I think that new ideas come from knowing more than other people. I've been a voracious reader all my life. I'm constantly filling my brain with half memories of things I think might be important.

James Watson dixit (James Watson: thinking outside the genome, 

The Lancet, March 2014)

Building theoretical castles in the air can provide the stimulus which is essential for carrying out painstaking experimental work.

Theodor Boveri (Ergebnisse über die Konstitution

der chromatischen Kernsubstanz, 1903)