Chance Is The Only Source Of True

A Knowledge Of The True Age Of The Earth And Of The Fossil Record Makes It Impossible For Any Balanced Intellect To Believe In The Literal Truth Of Every Part Of The Bible In The Way That Fundamentalists Do.

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.

You’re Nothing But A Pack Of Neurons.

In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually Lazy.

It Is Notoriously Difficult To Define The Word Living.