The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

We know more than we can tell.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.

«Per­ho­nen is not here any­more, » it says, with a voice made of wings and whis­pers.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

Everything a brand does is advertising.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

If you waste water, you die.