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Biophysicist Inspirational Quotes (200)

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I turned against the left wing because they don't like genetics, because genetics implies that sometimes in life we fail because we have bad genes. They want all failure in life to be due to the evil system.
James D. Watson
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Yet what is more awesome: to believe that God created everything in six days, or to believe that the biosphere came into being on its own, with no creator, and partially lawlessly? I find the latter proposition so stunning, so worthy of awe and respect, that I am happy to accept this natural creativity in the universe as a reinvention of 'God.'
Stuart Kauffman
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If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
Linus Pauling
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Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.
Eric Kandel
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One will only be free when one plays and one's society will become a piece of art. - Herbert Marcuse Play is a phenomenon of nature and has directed the course of the world from the beginning of time: the formation of matter, its organization into living structures as well as the social behavior of man.
Manfred Eigen
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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.
Aaron Klug
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Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling
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No one may have the guts to say this, but if we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why shouldn't we?
James D. Watson
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People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty. I think it would be great.
James D. Watson
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.
John Desmond Bernal
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I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.
James D. Watson
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
John Desmond Bernal
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Americans have the mistaken viewpoint that Lady Liberty is only a peacetime luxury who is ill-equipped to fight the nasties. Therefore, they reason, we need an equally nasty Big Brother. Americans have forgotten that Lady Liberty is one ferocious mother when protecting her children.
Mary Ruwart
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
Aaron Klug
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It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much information about the course of the evolutionary process, and to illuminate the question of the origin of species.
Linus Pauling
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The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
John Desmond Bernal
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The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.
Cynthia Kenyon
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The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.
James D. Watson
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Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.
James D. Watson
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We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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Heisenberg has discussed the coupled double harmonic oscillator, and has shown that the ordinary rules of quantization lead to two non-combining sets of states in one of which the electrons are in phase and out of phase. The energy of the system is successively transferred from one to the other - resonance!
Linus Pauling
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I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
James D. Watson
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If scientists don't play God, who will?
James D. Watson
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
Aaron Klug
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