Erwin Chargaff Quotes

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Chemists do not have to bother about the sociology of molecules.

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With very few exceptions, it is not the men that make science; it is science that makes the men.

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Nowadays our sciences, quick and fickle, wear out dogmas in 10 years, and axioms take only a little longer. Bitter Fruits from the Tree of Knowledge

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Most students no longer study nature; they test models.

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A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write...

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The Oscars of science do not set trends, but follow them.

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In science there is always one more Gordian knot than there are Alexanders.

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A good teacher can only have dissident pupils.

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What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, a molecular Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

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Models - in contrast to those who sat for Renoir - improve with age.

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We always cram the newest into our students: lost souls teaching the young how to lose theirs.

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It is true of every scientific discovery that the road means more than the goal.

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The Ph.D. is essentially a license to start unlearning.

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The extreme dislike, and therefore ignorance, of chemistry I have often encountered among molecular biologists are puzzling.

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Never before has science become so alienated from the common man, and he, in turn, so suspicious of science.

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The availability of a large number of established methods serves in modern science often as a surrogate of thought.

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The vested interest in a scientific subject compresses as it intensifies; it restricts as it deepens.

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