Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.
There is zero evidence for god. - Lewis Wolpert
There is zero evidence for god.
- Lewis Wolpert
I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false. - Lewis Wolpert
I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of grea… - Lewis Wolpert
Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of grea…
Depression is sadness gone wrong - Lewis Wolpert
Depression is sadness gone wrong
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life. - Lewis Wolpert
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In… - Lewis Wolpert
When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In…
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. - Lewis Wolpert
I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowl… - Lewis Wolpert
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowl…
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is only one correct explanat… - Lewis Wolpert
I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is only one correct explanat…
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