Peter D. Mitchell quotes
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“Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain appears now to have been right all along-and he deserves great credit for having been so reluctant to become involved when the energy-rich chemical intermediates began to be so fashionable. This reminds me of the aphorism: 'The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer'.”
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“Reason can be used only when looking critically back.”
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“Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.”
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“Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.”
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“The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.”
-- Peter D. Mitchell
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.133, Macmillan
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.89, Stanford University Press
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“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy”
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