Science Quotes

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"Nature's laws are written in chemistry."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life is chemistry organized with purpose."
Alfred Hershey
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"Cells divide; life continues."
Alfred Hershey
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"Understanding the phage changed biology forever."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life's instructions are written in DNA."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life perpetuates through copying, not through magic."
Alfred Hershey
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"The laboratory window opens onto infinity."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life's complexity emerges from elegant simplicity."
Alfred Hershey
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"Replication with variation is the recipe for life."
Alfred Hershey
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"Nature's code is written in four letters."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life depends on the faithful transmission of information."
Alfred Hershey
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"The most important thing is to observe. If you observe you will see."
Sydney Brenner
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"The smallest organisms hold the greatest secrets."
Sydney Brenner
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"The smallest detail may unlock the greatest mystery."
Sydney Brenner
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"The universe operates on principles we are privileged to discover."
Sydney Brenner
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
Max Delbrück
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"The real problem is that the way the world works, as described by modern physics, cannot be adequately and fundamentally explained in terms of classical concepts."
Max Delbrück
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"A scientist's aim in writing is to inform."
Max Delbrück
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"The essential question is not whether the mind can be explained by physics, but whether physics can be adequately explained without reference to the mind."
Max Delbrück
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"Science requires both imagination and rigorous thinking."
Max Delbrück
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"A molecule is not anything mysterious. It is just atoms stuck together by electrical forces."
Max Delbrück
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"Every question we ask nature must be answerable in physical terms."
Max Delbrück
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"The physicist's task is to find the rules of the game."
Max Delbrück
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"The universe operates according to physical laws."
Max Delbrück
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"Science is humanity's greatest achievement."
Max Delbrück
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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life"
Hermann Muller
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"Science is the pursuit of understanding how the universe works."
Oswald Avery
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"The greatest discoveries often hide in plain sight."
Oswald Avery
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"Science is organized curiosity about how things really work."
Oswald Avery
"The nerve growth factor opened up a whole new world of understanding about how our bodies develop and repair themselves."
Rita Levi-Montalcini