The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazi….

If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; ….

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in pla….

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions..

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors..

The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal au….

The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scien….

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towar….

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain powe….

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs.