Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Wilkins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a New Zealander scientist Maurice Wilkins.

Last updated on September 30, 2024.

Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was a New Zealand-born British biophysicist and Nobel laureate whose research spanned multiple areas of physics and biophysics, contributing to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray diffraction, and to the development of radar. He is best known for his work at King's College London on the structure of DNA.

New Zealander - Scientist | December 15, 1916 - October 5, 2004

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I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

Maurice Wilkins

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

Maurice Wilkins

In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.

Maurice Wilkins

DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

Maurice Wilkins

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Wilkins

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