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.

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

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.

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

The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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

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