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
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'. — 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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