Occupation: Scientist Birth: June 8, 1916 Death: July 28, 2004
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it..
One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are sc….
A busy life is a wasted life..
Avoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking..
In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death..
Christianity may be OK between consenting adults in private but should not be taught to young children..
Since I essentially knew nothing, I had an almost completely free choice..
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….
Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus..
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 ….
A man who is right every time is not likely to do very much..
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry..
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 ….
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….