“Epistemology: Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?”
(Woody Allen)

“It's not gastrulation, but somitogenesis, which is truly the most important time in your life.”
(Sorry for me being picky here, Mr. Wolpert, but there are too many contemporaries lacking a backbone.)

“The reason that we don’t understand the human brain lies not in its immense complexity – as is commonly believed – but rather in its striking simplicity.”
(Out of my own obviously simplistic brain.)

“Every paper in biology is a study in optimization - often, that of the authors' careers.”
(Ben "Bobby" Rubin, optimized by Anusha "Arby" Narayan.)

“I didn't have time to write a short paper, so I wrote a long one instead.”
(Adapted from Mark Twain or Bernhard Shaw or Blaise Pascal - a list of famous people I didn't have time to prolong.)

“A few months in the laboratory can save a few hours in the library.”
(Westheimer's Law)