When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.'… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share Image
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
“Mania has been described as having a mystical quality, an example of which is described by the writer Theodore Roethke. One day he felt… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical… — Lewis Wolpert Copy Share
