Academy Quote by Erwin Chargaff

There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of…

— Erwin Chargaff

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

— Erwin Chargaff

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

— Erwin Chargaff

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

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

— Erwin Chargaff

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

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

When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.

— Erwin Chargaff

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

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

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

Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.

— Erwin Chargaff