Exact Knowledge Is The Enemy Of Vitalism.

If The Code Does Indeed Have Some Logical Foundation Then It Is Legitimate To Consider All The Evidence, Both Good And Bad, In Any Attempt To Deduce It.

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.

Exploratory Research Is Really Like Working In A Fog. You Don't Know Where You're Going. You're Just Groping. Then People Learn About It Afterwards And Think How Straightforward It Was.

If Watson And I Had Not Discovered The [dna] Structure, Instead Of Being Revealed With A Flourish It Would Have Trickled Out And That Its Impact Would Have Been Far Less. For This Sort Of Reason Stent Had Argued That A Scientific Discovery Is More Akin To A Work Of Art Than Is Generally Admitted. Style, He Argues, Is As Important As Content. I Am Not Completely Convinced By This Argument, At Least In This Case.

It Is Not Easy To Convey, Unless One Has Experienced It, The Dramatic Feeling Of Sudden Enlightenment That Floods The Mind When The Right Idea Finally Clinches Into Place.