The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.
Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. In fact, we found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.
It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.
