Quotes on Plasticity

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.

The greatest scientists are artists as well.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.