I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.