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Science Quotes by Erwin Chargaff
- 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?'
- 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…
- 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,…
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