Wolpert Quotes & Sayings

There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life. — Daniel Wolpert

I strongly hold that, if an idea fits with common sense, then scientifically it is almost certain to be false. — Lewis Wolpert

There is zero evidence for god. — Lewis Wolpert

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science. — Lewis Wolpert

Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology. — Lewis Wolpert

An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging. — Stanley Wolpert

We dream every night, all the time. — Stephen LaBerge

When it was suggested to Pasteur that many of his great achievements depended on luck, he replied - I'm sure with more than a little irritation - 'In the field of observation in science, fortune only favours the prepared mind.' It is not by chance that it is always the great scientists who have the luck. — Lewis Wolpert

I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world. — Lewis Wolpert

Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three. — Stanley Wolpert

I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start. — James Wolpert

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements. — Daniel Wolpert

British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops. — James Joyce

the Spirit is the mind that is always present, bringing the best, most loving, most hopeful thought into the midst of every situation. — Daniel Wolpert

I feel like I've grown and become a more consummate performer. I feel like I've chiseled out a more distinctive niche. — James Wolpert

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour. — James Wolpert

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess. — Jhonen Vasquez

Most often when I stammer
That's my brain
Correcting my grammer. — Joyce Rachelle

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation
which is the most important time in your life. — Louis Wolpert

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse. — Bruce Cockburn

I would teach the world that science is the best way to understand the world and that for any set of observations, there is only one correct explanation. Also, science is value-free, as it explains the world as it is. Ethical issues arise only when science is applied to technology - from medicine to industry. — Lewis Wolpert

The plan to carve up British India was never approved of or accepted by Gandhi ... who realised too late that his closest comrades and disciples were more interested in power than principle, and that his own vision had long been clouded by the illusion that the struggle he led for India's freedom was a nonviolent one. — Stanley Wolpert

Both Newton and Darwin were driven by the data and were forced to recognize that they couldn't explain everything. It may be a characteristic of great scientists to know what to accept and what to leave out. — Lewis Wolpert

Personally, I think I am much calmer under incredibly stressful situations, and I've learned to deal with pressure and nerves, which is key to being a performer of any caliber. — James Wolpert

I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it! — Katee Sackhoff

Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you ... — Daniel Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. — James Wolpert

Daniel Wolpert, of Cambridge University, is fond of pointing out that IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer is capable of beating a grand master at the game of chess, but no computer has yet been developed that can move a chess piece from one square to another as well as a 3-year-old child. — Stuart Firestein

You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong. — Daniel Wolpert

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom. — Mahatma Gandhi

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge. — Lewis Wolpert

Depression is sadness gone wrong — Lewis Wolpert

I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can. — James Wolpert

I am a movement chauvinist. — Daniel Wolpert

I just can't wait to continue creating music. — James Wolpert