Tim Hunt Quotes
Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.
Hunt, Tim. "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 Interview." Nobelprize.org, Nobel Media AB, 2001.
Von Braun never really did any basic research, and although a brilliant engineer and technologist who was instrumental in rocket development, he never made any contribution to science. Basic research has the greatest long term benefit and effect on human knowledge and standard of living, but applied science can have more short range utility.
Sir Richard Timothy Hunt, FRS FMedSci FRSE MAE is a British biochemist and molecular physiologist. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and Leland H. Hartwell for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells. While studying fertilized sea urchin eggs in the early 1980s, Hunt discovered cyclin, a protein that cyclically aggregates and is depleted during cell division cycles.