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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/there-is-no-question-in-my-mind-that-we-live-in-one-of-the-truly/)

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## More by Erwin Chargaff

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/outside-his-own-ever-narrowing-field-of-specialization-a-scientist-is/)

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> [There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/there-is-no-question-in-my-mind-that-we-live-in-one-of-the-truly/)

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> [One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/one-of-the-most-insidious-and-nefarious-properties-of-scientific/)

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> [Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/science-is-wonderfully-equipped-to-answer-the-question-how-but-it/)

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> [There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/there-are-no-such-men-today-we-have-created-a-mechanism-that-makes-it/)

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> [Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/life-is-the-continuing-intervention-of-the-inexplicable/)

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> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/he-said-of-one-or-other-eminent-colleagues-is-a-very-busy-man-and/)

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> [A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/a-scientific-autobiography-belongs-to-a-most-awkward-literary-genre/)

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> [When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/when-the-so-called-think-tanks-began-to-replace-the-thought-processes/)

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> [The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/the-narrow-slit-through-which-the-scientist-if-he-wants-to-be/)

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> [You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/you-can-stop-splitting-the-atom-you-can-stop-visiting-the-moon-you/)

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> [ 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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/the-modern-version-of-buridan-s-ass-a-figurative-description-of-a-man/)

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> [Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/molecular-biology-is-essentially-the-practice-of-biochemistry-without/)

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> [If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/if-at-one-time-or-another-i-have-brushed-a-few-colleagues-the-wrong/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chargaff/the-results-serve-to-disprove-the-tetranucleotide-hypothesis-it-is/)

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