Coffee gives me bad breath.
Je cherche à comprendre.
A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.
What is true for E. coli is also true for the elephant.
Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution. . . It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup. "
There are living systems; there is no living "matter. " No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.
In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.
You're not a real manager unless you've been sacked.
I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.
You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.
I am egotistical, that I won't deny. . . I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good. . . but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.