Occupation: Scientist Birth: November 18, 1906 Death: April 12, 1997
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side..
Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror..
When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generati….
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternat….
Four elements, Hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen, also provide an example of the astonishing togetherness of our universe. They make up the "orga….
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are….
I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to e….
Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind..
Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are se….
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing a….
I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company..
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms..
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime..
We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our cr….
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse..
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... ….
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking..
Our business is with life, not death..
I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When….
We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked in a remote past in a d….
Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on this pla….