English Biochemist Quotes

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

John Kendrew

Rupert Sheldrake

Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks of by both horns of shore Her flower, her piece of being, doomed dragon's food.

Frederick Gowland Hopkins

In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance. Yet in relation to psychic phenomena, committed materialists feel free to disregard the evidence and behave irrationally and unscientifically, while claiming to speak in the name of science and reason. They abuse the authority of science and bring rationalism into disrepute.

Rupert Sheldrake

We are at the dawn of a new era, the era of 'molecular biology' as I like to call it, and there is an urgency about the need for more intensive application of physics and chemistry, and specially of structure analysis, that is still not sufficiently appreciated.

William Astbury

Scientists cannot predict the future any better than anyone else — even about their own field of research.