Science Quotes

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"The human brain is the greatest mystery we have yet to solve."
Rita Levi-Montalcini
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"The science of genetics has revealed to us the great truth that inheritance is the fundamental basis of life."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Chromosomes are the physical basis of heredity."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Science does not attempt to explain why things happen; it only attempts to describe how they happen."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"The gene is the unit of heredity."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"Mutations are the raw material of evolution."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"The study of genetics reveals the unity underlying biological diversity."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"Every cell contains the blueprint of the entire organism."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"In genetics, we find the explanation for both unity and diversity."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"Observation without experimentation is merely description."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"The true scientist approaches nature with humility and rigor."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"Scientific understanding requires both imagination and discipline."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"The experimental method has proven itself the most reliable path to truth."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
T
"Genes are the language in which nature speaks."
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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"The great thing about science is that it is self-correcting; errors are eventually revealed and discarded."
Oswald Avery
O
"Nature has written the answers; we merely learn to read them."
Oswald Avery
O
"A single well-designed experiment can overturn centuries of assumption."
Oswald Avery
O
"We must cultivate both the eye that sees and the mind that questions."
Oswald Avery
O
"Scientific truth is collaborative, built across generations and minds."
Oswald Avery
O
"In the dance between theory and experiment, nature leads."
Oswald Avery
C
"Science requires patience, persistence, and a willingness to be wrong."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"We must observe carefully before we dare to explain."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"One must be both rigorous and imaginative in science."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"The microscope reveals worlds that change how we see ourselves."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"Every experiment is a conversation with nature."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"The laboratory teaches us humility and wonder in equal measure."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"Rigorous thinking combined with wonder is the scientist's gift."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"Understanding nature requires both analysis and synthesis."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
C
"The embryo develops according to laws we are still uncovering."
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
S
"The scientist's real problem is to observe nature, not to observe what other scientists have said about nature."
Sydney Brenner