Molecular Biology

🇺🇸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?"

🇬🇧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."

"Momentum of the Wuhan virus epidemic outbreak may decline in 20 days based on the current prevention and control measures of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus."

"If history is the working out of a more moral purpose in time, then those who lay claim to that purpose are by that fact the predilect agents of history."

🇺🇸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."