Epstein Secrets

uished biologist Sir Peter Medawar wrote that if a young man as talented as Jim Watson had been born British, especially in the Cambridge of his and Crick's time, he would have been steered towards literary studies: "It just so happens that during the 195Os, the first great age of molecular biology, t

'Arcy Thompson. Learn lyricism by reading Wordsworth, as well as Carl Sagan or Peter Atkins. Learn wit from P G Wodehouse, as well as Steve Jones or Matt Ridley. You cannot write unless you love reading. Adjectives and adverbs are special treats. Ration them. The passive voice is not to be encouraged - see

creativity, or evil to that artifact than I do to ascribe those properties to its natural counterparts, like other human beings. Thus, by combining Crick’s “astonishing hypothesis” in neurobiology with powerful evidence from physics, we deduce that natural intelligence is a special case of artificial i

ible continuations; the task is to find one that leads to a predefined goal (a checkmate, or failing that, a draw). But the tree is far too big to 8 Matt Ridley, in The Rational Optimist, rightly stresses the positive effect of population on the rate of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor

creativity, or evil to that artifact than I do to ascribe those properties to its natural counterparts, like other human beings. Thus, by combining Crick’s “astonishing hypothesis” in neurobiology with powerful evidence from physics, we deduce that natural intelligence is a special case of artificial i

ible continuations; the task is to find one that leads to a predefined goal (a checkmate, or failing that, a draw). But the tree is far too big to 8 Matt Ridley, in The Rational Optimist, rightly stresses the positive effect of population on the rate of progress. But that has never yet been the biggest factor