'Genes, Girls, and Gamow' was an attempt, even more than 'The Double Helix,' to mix science with one's personal life. With 'The Double Helix,' no one had done it before, but I thought I'd try.
Copy QuoteOur scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Copy Quote View & ShareScience and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Copy Quote View & ShareA scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Copy Quote View & ShareScience is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
Copy Quote View & ShareScientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
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