Erwin Chargaff Quotes

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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 entire…
• Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
• One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
• Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
• 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 know…
• Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
• Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's
• There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own…
• Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an…
• If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a…
• 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 nucleic…
• 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…
• If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were…
• The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time,…
• We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we…

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