Science Quotes

It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?

For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

The balance of evidence both from the cell-free system and from the study of mutation, suggests that this does not occur at random, and that triplets coding the same amino acid may well be rather similar.

What science cannot understand, it dismisses.

It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

If you can’t give me poetry, can’t you give me poetical science?

In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves.