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

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.

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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.