Interesting Science Quotes

[molecule2005]

Some interesting science quotes to use with your friends or supervisor :

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than
2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you
were a creature, you just separated into two clones.
-- Walters, Mark Jerome The Harper Book of Quotations. Third Edition



"[Louis Pasteur's]... theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction.
"How do you think that these germs in the air can be numerous enough
to develop into all these organic infusions? If that were true, they would
be numerous enough to form a thick fog, as dense as iron."
--Pierre Pochet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, "The Universe:
The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Small" (1872); quoted in "The
Experts Speak: The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation",
ed. by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, (NY: Pantheon Books, 1984),
p. 30.

[admin]

Awesome!

Here are some more:

"People are DNA's way of making more DNA." - Edward O. Wilson, 1975

[Stephie5762]

Great!

[alejandro]

amazing