Science
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A theory should not seek to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong.
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A great scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die.
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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
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My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about a policeman's overtime. Past Archbishop of Canterbury
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Genes for the most part cannot act as discrete independent entities with specific properties.Rather they contribute to a network of interactions with quite different functions in different tissues.
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself now and then, finding a smoother pebble than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Knowledge, Science, Understanding
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Genes are so obviously very complex as to defy any profound understanding of how they work.
Experiments, Genetics, Science
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There are three stages in scientific discovery: first, people deny that it is true; then they deny that it is important; then they credit the wrong person.
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For random events to produce even a single protein, would be like a whirlwind spinning through a junkyard and leaving behind a fully assembled jumbo jet.
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Scientific truth is the most remote of mistresses; she hides in strange places, she is obtained by tortuous and laborious roads, but she is always there.Win her and she is always yours and mankind's is for ever.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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Hindsight is the only exact science.
Hindsight, History, Past, Science
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Responsible bio-technology is not the problem, but starvation is.
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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
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Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
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To mistrust science and to deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or a wild animal.
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The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretences and as certainly as if he granted that a horse hair put into a bottle of water will turn into a snake .
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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.
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My theory is that modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and that is generally practised by those who lack a flair for conversation.
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It was Einstein that made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.
