By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.

By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.