Knowledge Quotes

"Every field should aspire to the rigor that science demands of itself."

"Almost all aspects of life are engineered at the molecular level, and without understanding molecules we can only have a very sketchy understanding of life itself."

"Our task is to make sense of the accumulated knowledge of the past."

"You might think that when we have learned the basic principles of physics and chemistry, we would understand life. But that's not so."

"Memory is not something you acquire, it is something you create."

"What is the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we have to say is 'I don't know'?"

"Scientific knowledge provides an understanding of the world that is without parallel."

"To understand life we must understand the nature of biological information."

"We know very little about the origin of consciousness."

"Scientific progress is built on the shoulders of giants."

"Science is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake."

"To understand ourselves, we must understand our own neurobiology."

"Bacteria are not primitive ancestors of eukaryotes; rather, they represent a successful evolutionary strategy distinct from our own."

"Archaea are as distinct from bacteria as bacteria are from eukaryotes."

"Understanding the origins of life requires us to think in terms of molecular systems."

"To classify organisms, we must understand their molecular essence."

"Molecular biology has given us a universal language for understanding life."

"To find out how life works, you must ask questions at the molecular level."

"To understand yourself, you must understand the microbes that live within you."

"The study of microbial life has overturned many of our assumptions about biology."

"To understand the present, you must understand the past; to understand the past, you must understand molecules."

"To understand life is to understand how information is stored, transmitted, and expressed."

"Knowledge without humility is dangerous."

"The universe is far more complex than our current models suggest."

"I spend my time observing, and observation is the foundation of understanding."

"I have spent my life learning that nature is smarter than we are."

"Understanding begins when we stop imposing our categories on nature."

"The observer brings forth a world through the act of observing."

"We cannot see what we cannot see, and we cannot see that we cannot see."

"Blindness is not the absence of sight but the absence of awareness of blindness."