God Is A Hacker, Not An Engineer

A Good Scientist Values Criticism Almost Higher Than Friendship: No, In Science Criticism Is The Height And Measure Of Friendship.

It Has Not Escaped Our Notice That The Specific Pairing We Have Postulated Immediately Suggests A Possible Copying Mechanism For The Genetic Material.

There Is No Form Of Prose More Difficult To Understand And More Tedious To Read Than The Average Scientific Paper.

You Can Do Reverse Engineering, But You Can’t Do Reverse Hacking.

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.