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When You Inoculate Children With A Polio Vaccine, You Don't Sleep Well For Two Or Three Months.

Nothing Happens Quite By Chance. It's A Question Of Accretion Of Information And Experience ... It's Just Chance That I Happened To Be Here At This Particular Time When There Was Available And At My Disposal The Great Experience Of All The Investigators Who Plodded Along For A Number Of Years.

I Do What I Feel Impelled To Do, As An Artist Would. Scientists Function In The Same Way. I See All These As Creative Activities, As All Part Of The Process Of Discovery. Perhaps That's One Of The Characteristics Of What I Call The Evolvers, Any Subset Of The Population Who Keep Things Moving In A Positive, Creative, Constructive Way, Revealing The Truth And Beauty That Exists In Life And In Nature.

As A Bio-philosopher - As Someone Who Draws Upon The Scriptures Of Nature, Recognizing That We Are The Product Of The Process Of Evolution, And In A Sense, We Have Become The Process Itself - Through The Emergence And Evolution Of Our Consciousness, Our Awareness, Our Capacity To Imagine And To Anticipate The Future And To Choose From Amongst Alternatives.

A Wisdom Deficit - Fewer Elders And Even Fewer People Who Listen To Them.