Erez Lieberman Aiden — American Mathematician born on December 29, 1980,

Erez Lieberman Aiden, formerly known as Erez Lieberman, is an American research scientist active in multiple fields related to applied mathematics. He is an assistant professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, and formerly a fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and visiting faculty member at Google. Using mathematical and computational approaches, he has studied evolution in a range of contexts, including that of networks through evolutionary graph theory and languages in the field of culturomics. He has published scientific articles in a variety of disciplines... (wikipedia)

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.
I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.
The immune system constantly creates genes on the fly that are specific to the things that show up in the body. It's amazing.
I don't view myself as a practitioner of a particular skill or method. I'm constantly looking at what's the most interesting problem that I could possibly work on. I really try to figure out what sort of scientist I need to be in order to solve the problem I'm interested in solving.