Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

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

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

Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.

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

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.