12 Quotes by Arthur Kornberg

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Nothing worthwhile is ever fun.

Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it.

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half.

I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand.

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.

Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft.

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine.