Humor And Knowledge Are The

Every Mutation Through A New Combination Of Genetic Factors That Provides The Organism With A New Opportunity For Coming To Terms With The Conditions Of Its Environment Signifies No More And No Less Than That New Information About This Environment Has Got Into That Organic System. Adaptation Is Essentially A Cognitive Process.

Philosophers Are People Who Know Less And Less About More And More, Until They Know Nothing About Everything. Scientists Are People Who Know More And More About Less And Less, Until They Know Everything About Nothing.

I Believe That Present Day Civilized Man Suffers From Insufficient Discharge Of His Aggressive Drive

We Do Not Take Humor Seriously Enough.

The Attitude Of The True Scientist Towards The Real Limits Of Human Understanding Was Unforgettably Impressed On Me In Early Youth By The Obviously Unpremeditated Words Of A Great Biologist; Alfred Kuhn Finished A Lecture To The Austrian Academy Of Science With Goethe 's Words, "it Is The Greatest Joy Of The Man Of Thought To Have Explored The Explorable And Then Calmly To Revere The Inexplorable." After The Last Word He Hesitated, Raised His Hand In Repudiation And Cried, Above The Applause, "no, Not Calmly, Gentlemen; Not Calmly!