Science Quotes

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"Nature's mathematics is written in every living form."
Sydney Brenner
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"The bacteriophage is nature's most elegant molecular machine."
Alfred Hershey
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"Viruses teach us that life itself is information seeking expression."
Alfred Hershey
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"Science is the art of asking better questions tomorrow than today."
Alfred Hershey
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"Molecular biology demands both precision and wonder."
Alfred Hershey
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"Imagination without data is poetry; data without imagination is noise."
Alfred Hershey
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"Molecular structures hold the grammar of life itself."
Alfred Hershey
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"Viruses demonstrate that even the smallest things carry profound meaning."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life at the molecular level operates by rules we are still learning."
Alfred Hershey
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"The best experiments are those that surprise their creators."
Alfred Hershey
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"Nature's alphabet is chemistry; its sentences are biology."
Alfred Hershey
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"Science begins where certainty ends and questions begin."
Alfred Hershey
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"Molecules dance to laws we gradually learn to read."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life is elegant when viewed at the scale where it actually lives."
Alfred Hershey
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"Science is the only human endeavor where being wrong leads to truth."
Alfred Hershey
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"Life's complexity is a gift, not a curse, to those who study it."
Alfred Hershey
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"Nature operates by principles, not accidents."
Hermann Muller
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"The evidence, not the tradition, must guide our understanding."
Hermann Muller
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"The complexity of nature is matched only by the power of careful observation."
Hermann Muller
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"The scientist's task is to ask nature the right questions and listen carefully to the answers."
Max Delbrück
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"In biology, we are not looking for eternal truths, but rather understanding how life actually works."
Max Delbrück
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"The beauty of experimental science lies in its humility before nature's complexity."
Max Delbrück
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"Physics is easy compared to biology because nature is far more intricate than we imagine."
Max Delbrück
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"The physicist thinks in equations; the biologist thinks in relationships."
Max Delbrück
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"Science is the art of asking nature questions she hasn't been asked before."
Max Delbrück
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"A good theory is one that makes testable predictions about the natural world."
Max Delbrück
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"Every living cell is a universe of chemical complexity."
Max Delbrück
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"The language of life is written in molecules and expressed in behaviors."
Max Delbrück
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"Science is the conversation between human curiosity and natural reality."
Max Delbrück
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"The deepest insights into life come from studying its smallest units."
Max Delbrück