Exact Knowledge Is The Enemy

To Produce A Really Good Biological Theory One Must Try To See Through The Clutter Produced By Evolution To The Basic Mechanisms Lying Beneath Them, Realizing That They Are Likely To Be Overlaid By Other, Secondary Mechanisms. What Seems To Physicists To Be A Hopelessly Complicated Process May Have Been What Nature Found Simplest, Because Nature Could Only Build On What Was Already There.

A Good Scientist Values Criticism Almost Higher Than Friendship: No, In Science Criticism Is The Height And Measure Of Friendship.

It Is Essential To Understand Our Brains In Some Detail If We Are To Assess Correctly Our Place In This Vast And Complicated Universe We See All Around Us.

In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy.

Haemoglobin Is A Very Large Molecule By Ordinary Standards, Containing About Ten Thousand Atoms, But The Chances Are That Your Haemoglobin And Mine Are Identical, And Significantly Different From That Of A Pig Or Horse. You May Be Impressed By How Much Human Beings Differ From One Another, But If You Were To Look Into The Fine Details Of The Molecules Of Which They Are Constructed, You Would Be Astonished By Their Similarity.