Lewis Wolpert Quotes

#1. Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.

Lewis Wolpert

#2. It's impossible to tell what's going on at any given moment in Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; it's even harder to care about being able to tell.

Stephanie Zacharek

#3. There is zero evidence for god.

Lewis Wolpert

#4. You need to forgive yourself. The Lord has already wiped the slate clean. Don't doubt His good judgment.

Ruth Logan Herne

#5. 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 great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out.

Lewis Wolpert

#6. Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it.

Roger Scruton

#7. I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

Natalie Cole

#8. Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit."
Yuki: "Thank you. So much.

Natsuki Takaya

#9. "War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.

James Ellroy

#10. I have also testified repeatedly and published some articles in favor of Small Science.

Philip Warren Anderson

#11. Pain can change you, but that doesn't mean it has to be a bad change. Take that pain and turn it into wisdom.

Dalai Lama

#12. Even your silence wants to choke me, you who are so abysmally silent.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

Lewis Wolpert

#14. The real identity is projected only through our deeds, what we leave behind, unchanging and merging with our ultimate reality.

Gian Kumar

#15. I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false.

Lewis Wolpert

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

Lewis Wolpert

#17. Imitate, and what is personal will eventually come despite yourself.

Jean Cocteau

#18. 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 knowledge.

Lewis Wolpert

#19. No coffee either, caffeine withdrawal the real tragedy here.

Lauren Groff

#20. I advise women to live their life to their fullest, invest in who you want to be and live it well.

Reem Acra

#21. Ria snorted. Leo's pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they
supposed to mate? The zebras?

Lora Leigh

#22. Depression is sadness gone wrong

Lewis Wolpert