“And what could be more silent and less interesting than a whelk?” — Bill François Quote

“And what could be more silent and less interesting than a whelk?”

“A human being is nothing more than a very large community, on every level.”

“Don't try to exchange words, only to share that which transcends words.”

“Even before humanity realized the earth spins on its axis, they had understood that the sea belongs to everyone”

“We have neither tentacles nor limestone exoskeletons, but are we really so different from coral?”

“When school ends, everyone must relearn in their own way”

“The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.”

“It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.”

“What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.”

“The definitive study of the herd instincts of astronomers has yet to be written, Fernie said, but there are times when we resemble nothing so much as a herd of antelope, heads down in tight formation, thundering with firm determination in a particular direction across the plain. At a given signal from the leader we whirl about, and, with equally firm determination, thunder off in quite a different direction, still in tight parallel formation.”

“Mortoi vivos docent," he repeated. "So what does it mean.”