A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of… — 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 Image
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 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio.… — 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 Image
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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