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Ian Sample
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[bp], who earned a PhD in biomedical science, but turned to being a feature writer for New Scientist, a journalist at the Institute of Physics and joined the Guardian newspaper in 2003, and become its science editor.
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Science Quotes by Ian Sample (1 quote)
Science is the art of finding patterns in reality. How do shadows fall as the sun moves in the sky? What does light do when it shines through a prism? What direction do you go in when you fall over? Scientific experiments are designed to elicit these patterns. If they produce the same result time and again, the pattern might be important. It might reveal a law of nature.
— Ian Sample
In Massive: The Missing Particle That Sparked the Greatest Hunt in Science (), 43.
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) -- 
