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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality.

Cheryl and spiders: It kind of just goes together now.

His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.

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.