“When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him carefully and with respect — but do not believe him. Never put your trust into anything but your own intellect. Your elder, no matter whether he has gray hair or has lost his hair, no matter whether he is a Nobel laureate — may be wrong. The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself.”
![“We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.” quote by Richard Willstatter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7e8/richard-willstatter-66293_achievement_we-should-misjudge-this-scientist-fritz_2322666.jpg)
![“[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although he was pleased with the double-helix, he 'rather wished the idea had been his'.” quote by Linus Pauling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d71/linus-pauling-8508_dna_professor-pauling-confesses-that-he-had_319556.jpg)
