A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions;… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
The progress of science is tremendously disorderly, and the motivations that lead to this progress are tremendously varied, and the reasons why scientists go… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
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