It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance

We have come a long way on that old molecule DNA.

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.