C. H. Waddington Quotes

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We are part of nature, and our mind is the only instrument we have, or can conceive of, for learning about nature or about ourselves.

C. H. Waddington
Science, if given its head, is not just cold efficiency; its attitude is tolerant, friendly and humane. It has already become the dominant inspiration of human culture, so that modern poetry, painting and architecture derive their most constructive ideas from scientific thought.

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And, after all, I am a biologist; it is plants and animals that I'm interested in, not clever exercises in algebra or even chemistry.

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Science is the organized attempt of mankind to discover how things work as causal systems.

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Science as a whole certainly cannot allow its judgment about facts to be distorted by ideas of what ought to be true, or what one may hope to be true.

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To suppose that the evolution of the wonderfully adapted biological mechanisms has depended only on a selection out of a haphazard set of variations, each produced by blind chance, is like suggesting that if we went on throwing bricks together into heaps, we should eventually be able to choose ourselves the most desirable house.

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The best of modern art is compatible only with true science, and the bogus science requires a fake art to keep it company.

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Scientific knowledge and understanding is a communal achievement, the sum of a multitude of contributions from many different people. Any individual may feel a certain justifiable pride if he knows that he has added one brick to the structure.

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