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Salvador Luria
(13 Aug 1912 - 6 Feb 1991)
Italian-American microbiologist.
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Science Quotes by Salvador Luria (4 quotes)
… the world of science may be the only existing participatory democracy.
— Salvador Luria
In A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography (1984).
Everyone knows that in research there are no final answers, only insights that allow one to formulate new questions.
— Salvador Luria
In A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography (1984).
Significant advances in science often have a peculiar quality: they contradict obvious, commonsense opinions.
— Salvador Luria
A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube: An Autobiography (1984).
What matters in science is the body of findings and generalizations available today: a time-defined cross-section of the process of scientific discovery. I see the advance of science as self-erasing in the sense that only those elements survive that have become part of the active body of knowledge.
— Salvador Luria
In A Slot Machine, A Broken Test Tube (1985), 123.
See also:
- 13 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Luria's birth.
- A Slot Machine, a Broken Test Tube: an Autobiography, by Salvador Edward Luria. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
