Richard Levins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.
[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind.
The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.
Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity,
To know the brain...is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

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