Table of Contents
Chapter One
Afterwards, Rosy always blamed the turtle...
Chapter Two
‘I’m convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.’
Chapter Three
‘I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.’
Chapter Four
‘The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.’
Chapter Five
‘The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.’
Chapter Six
‘Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine …’
Chapter Seven
‘Good science and good art both require imagination.’
Chapter Eight
‘Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense.’
Chapter Nine
‘Chance favours only the prepared mind.’
Chapter Ten
‘Science moves, but slowly, slowly …’
Chapter Eleven
‘Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking.’
Chapter Twelve
‘… now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.’
Chapter Thirteen
‘Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.’
Chapter Fourteen
‘What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.’
Chapter Fifteen
‘In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.’
Chapter Sixteen
‘It is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.’
Chapter Seventeen
‘Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: it gives them something to do.’
Chapter Eighteen
‘We’ve never had a woman in the laboratory before, and we think you’d be a distracting influence.’
Chapter Nineteen
‘It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast.’
Chapter Twenty
‘Did science promise happiness? I don’t think so. It promised truth …’
Author’s Note
Bibliography
Index
