John Maddox Quotes

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This century has been so rich in discovery and so packed with technical innovation that it is tempting to believe that there can never be another like it. That conceit betrays the poverty of our collective imagination.

John Maddox

It's unnecessary to introduce magic into the explanation of physical and biological phenomena when in fact there is every likelihood that the continuation of research as it is now practiced will indeed fill all the gaps that Sheldrake draws attention to.

John Maddox

The El Niño phenomenon, the geophysicists' equivalent of the universal solvent.

John Maddox

The river of discovery will continue to flow without cessation, deepening our understanding of the world and enhancing our capacity to forefend calamity and live congenial lives.

John Maddox

The problems that remain unsolved are gargantuan. They will occupy our children and their children and on and on for centuries to come, perhaps even for the rest of time.

John Maddox

The microwave background radiation, which fills even the corners of the universe, would psychologically have been more compelling evidence for the Big Bang if it had been predicted before its discovery in 1965. That it was not is something of a surprise, which is nevertheless now irrelevant.

John Maddox