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“How small a thought it takes to fill someone’s whole life,”
Mendel was, first and foremost, a gardener. His genius was not fueled by deep knowledge of the conventions of biology
Radical genetic interventions could only be imagined in radically egalitarian societies.
In 1990, writing about the Human Genome Project, the worm geneticist John Sulston wondered about the philosophical quandary raised by an intelligent organism that has “learned to read its own instructions.” But an infinitely deeper quandary is raised when an intelligent organism learns to write its own instructions.
