Experiment 2 - Quotes

Alfred Nobel

"A chemical analysis is of course nothing other than this, and even mathematics has no other foundation. History is a picture of past similarities and differences; geography shows the differences in the earth's surface; geology, similarities and differences in the earth's formation, from which we deduce the course of its transformations. Astronomy is the study of similarities and differences between celestial bodies; physics, a study of similarities and differences that arise from the attraction and motive functions of matter. The only exception to this rule is religious doctrine, but even this rests on the similar gullibility of most people. Even metaphysics - if it is not too insane - must find support for its hypotheses in some kind of analogy. One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge."

Source: Life and Philosophy of Alfred Nobel
A memorial address by Tore Frängsmyr
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
26 March 1996
http://nobelprize.org/alfred_nobel/biographical/articles/frangsmyr/index.html


Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal."

Source: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacques_yves_cousteau.html


Keith Campbell

"Cloning offers a lot of benefits. I'd just like to see some of them put into practice. I hope that we manage to get there, and improve the quality of life for a lot more people. We are not going to cure diseases, but we may be able to treat them or hold them off or control and manage them."

Source: http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/transcript.html