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.

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

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

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

Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.