The Universe Is A Put-up Job.

I Am Genuinely Sorry For Scientists Of The Younger Generation Who Never Knew Fisher Personally. So Long As You Avoided A Handful Of Subjects Like Inverse Probability That Would Turn Fisher In The Briefest Possible Moment From Extreme Urbanity Into A Boiling Cauldron Of Wrath, You Got By With Little Worse Than A Thick Head From The Port Which He, Like The Cambridge Mathematician J. E. Littlewood, Loved To Drink In The Evening. And On The Credit Side You Gained A Cherished Memory Of English Spoken In A Shakespearean Style And Delivered In The Manner Of A Spanish Grandee.

Words Are Like Harpoons. Once They Go In, They Are Very Hard To Pull Out.

We Are Inescapably The Result Of A Long Heritage Of Learning, Adaptation, Mutation And Evolution, The Product Of A History Which Predates Our Birth As A Biological Species And Stretches Back Over Many Thousand Millennia... Going Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With Our Fellow Primates; And Going Still Further Back, We Share A Common Ancestry With All Other Living Creatures And Plants Down To The Simplest Microbe. The Further Back We Go, The Greater The Difference From External Appearances And Behavior Patterns Which We Observe Today.

When I Was Young, The Old Regarded Me As An Outrageous Young Fellow, And Now That I'm Old The Young Regard Me As An Outrageous Old Fellow.

Life Cannot Have Had A Random Beginning. ... The Trouble Is That There Are About Two Thousand Enzymes, And The Chance Of Obtaining Them All In A Random Trial Is Only One Part In 10 To The 40,000 Power, An Outrageously Small Probability That Could Not Be Faced Even If The Whole Universe Consisted Of Organic Soup.