Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license..

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable..

You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by t….

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an….

The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire c….

If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, ….

The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-tha….

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain fo….

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality..

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks..

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur..

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'.

The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between ….

We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I ….

There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future his….

A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few h….

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the bioche….

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's.

He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half..