It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems.
“It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well.”
“We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.”