Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.