The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

The region of the mysterious is rapidly shrinking.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

So many of the chemical reactions occurring in living systems have been shown to be catalytic processes occurring isothermally on the surface of specific proteins, referred to as enzymes, that it seems fairly safe to assume that all are of this nature and that the proteins are the necessary basis for carrying out the processes that we call life.

The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.