The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.

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.

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.

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

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

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