[233. The exciting future of biology, Sydney Brenner, Web of Stories, https://www.webofstories.com/play/sydney.brenner/233]
Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and the New Biology of Mind (2008)
The Neuroscience Behind Behavior (2017)
Context: We're only a couple of hundreds of years into understanding that epilepsy is a neurological disease and not a demonic possession. We're only about 50 years into understanding that certain types of learning disabilities are micro malformations in the cortex in people with dyslexia and not laziness or lack of motivation. The vast majority of these factoids [presented in the book] are 10, 20 years old, and all that's gonna happen is we're gonna learn more and more of that stuff. And what we're going to learn more and more is to recognise extents to which we're biological organisms and our behaviours have to be evaluated in that realm. For my money, what that eventually does is make words like "soul" or "evil" utterly absurd and medieval, but it also makes words like "punishment" or "justice" very questionable, as well. I think it will require an enormous reshaping of how we think we deal with the most damaging of human behaviours, because none of it can be thought of outside the context of biology.
Robert Rosen (2013), Essays on Life Itself Chapter 18
November 1941 https://books.google.ca/books?id=eEcXfXoSdgwC&pg=PR223, according to page 223 of "The Bombing War: Europe, 1939-1945", a 2013 book by Richard Overy
2014 Washington Post article https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-bombers-and-the-bombed-allied-air-war-over-europe-1940-1945-by-richard-overy/2014/03/07/7c2ba5de-9d60-11e3-a050-dc3322a94fa7_story.html refers to him as "a ranking British officer"
History Channel, between 5 November 2018 and 21 February 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190221193159/https://www.history.co.uk/shows/al-murray-why-does-everyone-hate-the-english/articles/the-bombing-of-german-cities-during-ww2, referred to him as "one bigwig at Bomber Command" when quoting this.
since at least 19 October 2017 https://steamcommunity.com/app/537800/discussions/0/3182216552766807678/ this quote has been misattributed to Charles Portal the "Chief of Air Staff", due to subsequent mention of Peirse's title "Chief of Bomber Command" mentioned in a 2015 Telegraph article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/11410633/Dresden-was-a-civilian-town-with-no-military-significance.-Why-did-we-burn-its-people.html following a paragraph naming Portal without mentioning the subsequent person was Peirse, allowing the assumption that it was continued discussion of Portal.
Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)
Untermyer: Is not commercial credit based primarily upon money or property?
Morgan: No, sir; the first thing is character.
Testimony to the Pujo Committee (1912)
Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview http://karthikr.wordpress.com/2006/04/06/donald-knuth-%e2%80%94-computer-literacy-bookshops-interview-1993/ Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview (1993)
On why bioinformatics is very exciting
