Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I think that creativity depends on having sufficient indeterminacy around for a new pattern to arise up within it.

Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.