Be Courageous

"The most challenging moments I have had in my career was when my research revealed the new science that my colleagues did not understand. Everybody was into genes, genes this, genes that, all the money was going to genes, and I am the only guy standing there going, I do not think that is true. My colleagues looked at me like I was a crazy person. I actually felt for a while that I might be crazy because everyone else was against my whole belief system. I even went back to my graduate school and asked one of the world's top cell biologists, tell me what is wrong with my idea. He said, it is too simple. I actually laughed out loud in his face. I said, Lenny, let me tell you, the first week in graduate school I was taught Occam's Razor, the simplest hypothesis is the best hypothesis. I said, if you think it is too simple, I want to thank you for that. 23 years later, finally science caught on and I was vindicated. So I went from crazy person to jubilant person."