Max Perutz Quotes
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I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the…
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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,…
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What is known for certain is dull.
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Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
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A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced…
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I rarely plan my research; it plans me.
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Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?
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Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners
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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.…
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Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works…
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