{"quotes":[{"text":"The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.","author":"Alan Hodgkin","tags":["animals","nobel-laureate","physiologist","science","zoology"],"id":4130,"author_id":"Alan+Hodgkin"},{"text":"My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.","author":"Martin L. Perl","tags":["advice","experimental-science","ideas","nobel-laureate","physics","science","scientist"],"id":4397,"author_id":"Martin+L.+Perl"},{"text":"Not only are there meaningless questions, but many of the problems with which the human intellect has tortured itself turn out to be only 'pseudo problems,' because they can be formulated only in terms of questions which are meaningless. Many of the traditional problems of philosophy, of religion, or of ethics, are of this character. Consider, for example, the problem of the freedom of the will. You maintain that you are free to take either the right- or the left-hand fork in the road. I defy you to set up a single objective criterion by which you can prove after you have made the turn that you might have made the other. The problem has no meaning in the sphere of objective activity; it only relates to my personal subjective feelings while making the decision.","author":"Percy Williams Bridgman","tags":["decisions","determinism","ethics","experiment","falsifiability","falsifiable","feelings","free-will","meaning","nobel-laureate","objective","philosophy","proof","questions","religion","science","scientific","subjective"],"id":7513,"author_id":"Percy+Williams+Bridgman"},{"text":"Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.","author":"John Archibald Wheeler","tags":["acausal","big-bang","cosmology","laws-of-nature","nobel-laureate","origin-of-the-universe","origin-of-universe","physical-law","physics","quantum-cosmology","quantum-fluctuations","quantum-mechanics"],"id":16796,"author_id":"John+Archibald+Wheeler"},{"text":"I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don’t worry about the rest.","author":"César Milstein","tags":["experiments","fred-sanger","frederick-sanger","learning","max-ferdinand-perutz","max-perutz","nobel-laureate","research","science","stoppani"],"id":17259,"author_id":"C%C3%A9sar+Milstein"},{"text":"Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.","author":"Kary Mullis","tags":["art","growth","institution","law","mankind","nobel-laureate","science"],"id":18430,"author_id":"Kary+Mullis"},{"text":"My laboratory is interested in the related challenges of understanding the origin of life on the early earth, and constructing synthetic cellular life in the laboratory. Focusing on artificial life frees us to explore novel chemical systems, but what we learn from these systems helps us to understand possible pathways leading to the origin of life. Our basic design for a synthetic cell involves the encapsulation of a spontaneously replicating nucleic acid, which acts as the genetic material, within a spontaneously replicating membrane vesicle, which provides spatial localization. We are using chemical synthesis to make nucleic acids with modified nucleobases and sugar-phosphate backbones.","author":"Jack W. Szostak","tags":["artificial-life","biology","chemistry","early-earth","early-life","first-life","laboratory","nobel-laureate","origin-of-life","science","synthetic-life"],"id":21137,"author_id":"Jack+W.+Szostak"},{"text":"I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.","author":"Felix Bloch","tags":["achievement","dreams","experience","inspirational","nobel-laureate","origin","science","scientists","student","youth"],"id":21159,"author_id":"Felix+Bloch"},{"text":"There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.","author":"Allan McLeod Cormack","tags":["experience","hope","human","human-experience","nobel-laureate","nobel-speech","science","specialization","unity"],"id":21910,"author_id":"Allan+McLeod+Cormack"},{"text":"During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and the means to acquire it by reading, a habit of learning which I still follow to this day. I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house. I soon graduated to biochemistry and tried to discover what gave flowers their distinctive colours. I made the (to me) astounding discovery that the pigments I extracted changed their colours when I changed the pH of the solution.","author":"Sydney Brenner","tags":["biochemistry","chemistry","discovery","knowledge","library","nobel-laureate","science"],"id":25238,"author_id":"Sydney+Brenner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":109,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}