Biophysics

Jagadish Chandra Bose

Science

1858–1937

"The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth."

🇺🇸Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Medicine

1921–2011

"Initially, new ideas are rejected. Later they become dogma, if you’re right. And if you’re really lucky you can publish your rejections as part of your Nobel presentation."

🇺🇸John Stapp

Medicine

1910–1999

"We do all of our work in consideration of Murphy's Law."

"a system in which all relevant information would be available to each research worker in an amplitude proportional to its degree of relevance."

🇬🇧Francis Crick

Literature

1916–2004

"Both of us had decided, quite independently of each other, that the central problem in molecular biology was the chemical structure of the gene."

🇩🇪Bernard Katz

Medicine

1911–2003

"Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme."

🇭🇺Georg von Békésy

Science

1899–1972

"It is not the things that we have, but how we use them that is important."

🇺🇸Thomas Gold

Science

1920–2004

"A theorist can explain any correlation, and its inverse."