Balance Quote by Wilhelm Johannsen

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

— Jack W. Szostak

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last…

— Max Gluckman

Realizing how often ingenious speculation in the complex biological world has led nowhere and how often the real advances in biology as well as…

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

The more details we learn about the chemical basis of life and the intricacy of the genetic code, the more unbelievable the standard historical…

— Thomas Nagel

In the progressive growth of astronomy, physics or mechanical science was developed, and when this had been, to a certain degree, successfully cultivated, it…

— Anonymous

“The biochemist's approach pivots on concentration: find the protein by looking where it's most likely to be concentrated, and distill it out of the…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The first generation of biotech physically cut and pasted from one organism to another. You learned that taxol helped cure cancer, then you found…

— Steve Jurvetson

Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following…

— Peter Agre

It once seemed that the most profound feats stemming from DNA-based science would spring from our ability to read and detect genes, which we…

— Scott Gottlieb

The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual support of many scientists and on the societies in…

— Anonymous

Although scientists can often be as resistant to new ideas as anyone, the process of science ensures that, over time, good ideas and theories…

— Dean Ornish