In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

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

Protein synthesis is a central problem for the whole of biology, and that it is in all probability closely related to gene action.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

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.