In My Experience Most Mathematicians Are Intellectually

When You Start In Science, You Are Brainwashed Into Believing How Careful You Must Be, And How Difficult It Is To Discover Things. There's Something That Might Be Called The 'graduate Student Syndrome'; Graduate Students Hardly Believe They Can Make A Discovery.

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.

Exact Knowledge Is The Enemy Of Vitalism.

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.

Anybody Who Believes That The Earth Is Less Than 10,000 Years Old Needs Psychiatric Help.