Development Quotes

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It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next… — Sydney Brenner
I think that the formation of [DNA's] structure by Watson and Crick may turn out to be the greatest developments in the field of molecular… — Linus Pauling
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all;… — Albert Einstein
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from the simplest to… — Charles Lyell
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of… — Arthur Balfour
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer,… — Oliver Heaviside
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes… — G. H. Hardy
During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete.… — Max Born
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the… — William Osler
The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine exists,… — Charles Babbage
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is working from the… — Paul Dirac
Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except… — Charles Darwin
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They began to be,… — Hugh Miller
Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future… — Paul Dirac
In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But… — Frederick Soddy
Man is the summit, the crown of nature's development, and must comprehend everything that has preceded him, even as the fruit includes within itself all… — Lorenz Oken

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