All three spoke in the kind of down-home, common-as-flies style that is the lingua franca of great scientists, conveying a contempt for pretension, a contempt for cant, a delight in common sense, combined with uncommon curiosity about what is really there.

— Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (1999)

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