Spider Silk Quotes

For me, each day begins and ends with wanting to learn a little more about the secrets of spider silk.

To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'

I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web.

You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.

Look at spiders. They use about eight different properties of silk for different functions. The spider is like a multimaterial 3D printer.

On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

With all due respect to arachnophobes, I love spiders. Some might call me obsessed, but I've been studying spiders and spider silks for many years now and don't see an end in sight. There is simply too much to do.

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.

The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.

Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.