Tim Hunt Quotes
Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.
Hunt, Tim. Interview by John Humphrys. Today, BBC Radio 4, 10 June 2015.
Myths include the then accepted scientific, political, and religious teachings.
This was published just after his death.
Belief and/or ideology of even teh vast majority or the world has no influence on the vaidity and truth of science. A particualr scientific statement is true or not based an many factors, none of which have anything to do with beliefs, world views, custims, cultures, or religious doctrine.
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.
