Molecular Biologist

🇺🇸James Watson

Science

1928–2025

"If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous."

🇦🇹Max Perutz

Science

1914–2002

"Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?"

🇬🇧Aaron Klug

Science

1926–2018

"People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work."

"It is you who judges who you are. In this way, the judgment is accurate."

🇨🇭Jacques Dubochet

Ethics

environmentalism

b. 1942

"Reasonably, all these investments are financial dead-ends or ecological disasters."

🇬🇧Rosalind Franklin

Science

1920–1958

"What’s the use of doing all this work if we don't get some fun out of this?"

🇬🇧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."

🇺🇸Walter Gilbert

Science

1932–1994

"is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS."

"Based on the virus genome and properties, there is no indication whatsoever that it was an engineered virus."

🇺🇸Jon Kabat-Zinn

Psychology

b. 1944

"Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient…only the universe rearranging itself."

🇺🇸Joan Slonczewski

Science

b. 1956

"She watched the indigo sky, and the stars coming out tranquil as ever, as if this were any ordinary evening. Only humans knew what an evil time this was."

🇺🇸Leó Szilárd

Science

1898–1964

"Even in times of war, you can see current events in their historical perspective, provided that your passion for the truth prevails over your bias in favor of your own nation."

🇺🇸Kary Mullis

Science

1944–2019

"Kary Mullis: Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, Pantheon Books, New York, 1998"

🇺🇸Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Science

b. 1952

"Scientists are trained to be rational and we are not trained to interact with people and develop social skills. Politics is about being able to convince people. Scientists could do with learning how to do that."

🇺🇸Peter Agre

Science

b. 1949

"Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher."