Occupation: Scientist Birth: June 8, 1916 Death: July 28, 2004
Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved..
You’re nothing but a pack of neurons..
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship..
There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it..
What could be more foolish than to base one's entire view of life on ideas that, however plausible at the time, now appear to be quite erroneous? An….
Chance is the only source of true novelty..
It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the ….
Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding o….
It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all arou….
A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
Evolution is cleverer than you are..
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children..
My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure"..
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be ….
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice..
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death..
A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much..
When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something ….
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing of thes….
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry..
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus..