It will be in the convergence of evolutionary biology, developmental biology and cancer biology that the answer to cancer will lie. Nor will this confluence be a one-way street.

Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

Mathematics is not something that you find lying around in your back yard. It's produced by the human mind. Yet if we ask where mathematics works best, it is in areas like particle physics and astrophysics, areas of fundamental science that are very, very far removed from everyday affairs.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.