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

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

- Lewis Wolpert

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.

- Lewis Wolpert

Depression is sadness gone wrong

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Lewis Wolpert