Lewis Wolpert Quotes

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

Depression is sadness gone wrong

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

There is zero evidence for god.

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.

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.

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

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