What A Life In Science Really Teaches

We Are Not At The Center Of Ourselves, But Instead - Like The Earth In The Milky Way, And The Milky Way In The Universe - Far Out On A Distant Edge, Hearing Little Of What Is Transpiring.

Each Cell Sends Electrical Pulses To Other Cells, Up To Hundreds Of Times Per Second. If You Represented Each Of These Trillions And Trillions Of Pulses In Your Brain By A Single Photon Of Light, The Combined Output Would Be Blinding.

Some Men May Be Genetically Inclined To Have And Hold A Single Partner, While Some May Not. In The Near Future, Young Women Who Stay Current With The Scientific Literature May Demand Genetic Tests Of Their Boyfriends To Assess How Likely They Are To Make Faithful Husbands.

The First Thing We Learn From Studying Our Own Circuitry Is A Simple Lesson: Most Of What We Do And Think And Feel Is Not Under Our Conscious Control.

Who We Can Be Begins With Our Molecular Blueprints - A Series Of Alien Codes Penned In Invisibly Small Strings Of Acids - Well Before We Have Anything To Do With It. We Are A Product Of Our Inaccessible, Microscopic History.