There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great -… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-that in all desoxypentose… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share
