You’re nothing but a pack of neurons.

We have to take away from humans in the long run their reproductive autonomy as the only way to guarantee the advancement of mankind.

A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to believe in the literal truth of every part of the Bible in the way that fundamentalists do.

Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

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.

I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.