About Svante Pääbo and Alan Wilson, quote in this must-read piece on Neanderthals and genomes:
“Each of them thought of very big ideas,” she told me. “And each of them was very good at translating those ideas into testable hypotheses. And then each of them was very good at developing the technology that’s necessary to test the hypotheses. And to have all three of those capacities is really remarkable.” Also, although “they were both very data-driven, neither was afraid to say outrageous things about their data, and neither was afraid to be wrong.”
If you’re never wrong in science, you’re not generating enough ideas.
The Finch and Pea 