A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

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.