For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures. — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
“Science is part of culture. Culture isn't only art and music and literature, it's also understanding what the world is made of and how it functions. People should know something about stars, matter and chemistry. People often say that they… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
“Science is part of culture. Culture isn't only art and music and literature, it's also understanding what the world is made of and how… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood,… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create… — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz Copy Share Image
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