People believe marriage will make us better.
The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.
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.
If you want to understand function, study structure.
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve. . . is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering about we stumbled on gold, but the fact remains that we were looking for gold. Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene. . . . We could not see what the answer was, but we considered it so important that we were determined to think about it long and hard, from any relevant point of view.
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 around us.
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.
My goal is to spread the word about the need for more blood donors.
The claim that myth is always a narrative spin-off of ritual; the claim that myth is the projection of human anxieties onto a cosmological scrim; the claim that myths are invented to give sanction to human predilections and institutions. . . These are ways of trivializing a mode of thought that has served humanity well for a very long time.
The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis that they induce in people who aren't quite zombies yet. The rest of us un-zombies turn our heads, hoping the ghouls will just go away.
Do you want to be with Dave for the rest of your life?” Then he rips off a piece of paper and picks up the smallest charcoal stick from my set. He writes something. He passes it over to me. It says: Time will tell. “And while you’re waiting,” he says, “don’t settle for anything less than what you really want.