Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics, and each level ca… - Philip W. Anderson

The behavior of large and complex aggregates of elementary particles, it turns out, is not to be understood in terms of a simple extrapolation of a few particles. Instead, at each level of complexity entirely new properties appear, and the understanding of the new behaviors requires research which I think is as fundamental in its nature as any other.

Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so ...

My belief is based on the fact that string theory is the first science in hundreds of years to be pursued in pre-Baconian fashion, without any adequate experimental guidance.