In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

Of course, the English countryside is completely artificial. It was naturally a forest; they chopped down the trees and made it into what it is now: really a beautiful country.

The analogies between science and art are very good as long as you are talking about the creation and the performance. The creation is certainly very analogous. The aesthetic pleasure of the craftsmanship of performance is also very strong in science.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

As finite creatures who think and feel, we can create islands of meaning in the sea of information.

Some of my friends like to keep science and religion together, but I certainly like to keep them separate.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.