Science Is The Search For Truth.

We May, I Believe, Anticipate That The Chemist Of The Future Who Is Interested In The Structure Of Proteins, Nucleic Acids, Polysaccharides, And Other Complex Substances With High Molecular Weight Will Come To Rely Upon A New Structural Chemistry, Involving Precise Geometrical Relationships Among The Atoms In The Molecules And The Rigorous Application Of The New Structural Principles, And That Great Progress Will Be Made, Through This Technique, In The Attack, By Chemical Methods, On The Problems Of Biology And Medicine.

...it Would Be Possible To Make Much More Progress Than Has Been Made If The Nci Knew Its Job Better, Knew How To Make Discoveries...the Nci Really Does Not Know How To Make Discoveries....so Long As The Nci Is Not Willing To Follow Up Ideas That Seem Good To People Who Have Had Experience Making Discoveries, The Work Of The Nci Is Going To Be Pedestrian.

During The Time That [karl] Landsteiner Gave Me An Education In The Field Of Imununology, I Discovered That He And I Were Thinking About The Serologic Problem In Very Different Ways. He Would Ask, What Do These Experiments Force Us To Believe About The Nature Of The World? I Would Ask, What Is The Most. Simple And General Picture Of The World That We Can Formulate That Is Not Ruled By These Experiments? I Realized That Medical And Biological Investigators Were Not Attacking Their Problems The Same Way That Theoretical Physicists Do, The Way I Had Been In The Habit Of Doing.

Science Is The Search For Truth, That Is The Effort To Understand The World: It Involves The Rejection Of Bias, Of Dogma, Of Revelation, But Not The Rejection Of Morality.

The Way To Get Good Ideas Is To Get Lots Of Ideas And Throw The Bad Ones Away.