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Belief in the Ignorance of Experts

Learn from science that you must doubt the experts. As a matter of fact: Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Richard Feynman, ForMemRS (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988), an American theoretical physicist
as quoted in lecture by Phil Nelson

All cell biologists have two cells of interest

Although not everyone is mindful of it, all cell biologists have two cells of interest: the one they are studying, and Escherichia coli.

Frederick Neidhardt (1931 — ), professor of Microbiology and Immunology
as quoted in The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell

Regard the World as Made of Information

Regard the physical world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals.

John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008), American theoretical physicist
[attributed by Jacob Bekenstein in “Information in the Holographic Universe” (Scientific American, 2007)]

It has taken great minds to discover simple things

It behooves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great minds to discover simple things. They are very great names indeed which we couple with the explanation of the path of a stone, the droop of a chain, the tints of a bubble, the shadows in a cup.

Sir D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (May 2, 1860 – June 21, 1948), a Scottish biologist, mathematician and classics scholar
in On Growth and Form, 1917

The next major thrust in biology

The next [major] thrust [in biology], the one that may bring us closer to the Archimedian ideal of science, we may expect to come from information theory.

Werner R. Loewenstein (1926—November 17, 2014), biologist, physiologist
in The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life, Oxford University Press, 1999

You and I Are Not Much Different from Cans of Soup

At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from cans of soup. And yet we can do many complex and even fun things we do not usually see cans of soup doing.

Philip Nelson, American physicist
in Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life

Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life written by Philip Nelson — *Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life* written by Philip Nelson

Food is a product of economic supply and demand

Food is a product of economic supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Tyler Cowen (January 21, 1962— ), American economist, academic, and writer
in An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies