The question of the origin of life is essentially speculative. We have to construct, by straightforward thinking on the basis of very few factual observations, a plausible and self-consistent picture of a process which must have occurred before any of the forms which are known to us in the fossil record could have existed.
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.
My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.
I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
I'm not massively academic. I'm a commonsense person.
In one way an arrow moves, in another way the mind. The mind indeed, both when it exercises caution and when it is employed about inquiry, moves straight onward not the less, and to its object.
I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.
At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
I kind of look at things from a very common-sense point of view.
I may not be a polished politician, but as a lifelong farmer, I know that most problems can be solved with a little common sense.
The greatest ideas are the simplest.
I think very simplistically.
