The Importance of Basic Questions

Daniel Treisman: I think we need to do a little bit of houseclearing from the last time you and I met because we were talking about the fantastic and amazing Greek ancient astronomical computer, the anti-ketera mechanism. And we got into a little tangent and made some jokes about chemistry. He says he was merely joking at his own expense in terms of his limited ability to do chemistry or figure out chemistry equations. But without chemistry, my two favorite sciences, astrophysics and evolutionary biology would not exist.