"There are no such men today. We have……" — 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 own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time."
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Erwin Chargaff
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15 Quotes by Erwin Chargaff
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You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even…
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Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
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Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming…
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If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify…
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The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be…
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history.…
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If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had…
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