"A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is … - Richard Dawkins

Moral philosophers say things like, ‘What is actually wrong with cannibalism?’ There are two ways of responding to that: one is to shrink back in horror and say, ‘Cannibalism! Cannibalism! We can’t talk about cannibalism!’ The other is to say, ‘Well, actually, what is wrong with cannibalism?’ Then you work it out and you tease it out and you decide yes, actually, cannibalism is wrong, but for the following reasons. So I'd like to think that my moral values at least partly come from reasoning. Trying to suppress the gut reaction as much as possible.

What is truly revolutionary about molecular biology in the post-Watson-Crick era is that it has become digital.

... you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.