Rover Quotes

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.