The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power… — 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 into science, the personal motivations, are tremendously varied. I have said ... that science is a… — 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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