Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true hypotheses from false ones.

Biology is the most powerful technology ever created. DNA is software, protein are hardware, cells are factories.

There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a measurement. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.