The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.


Interview with Max Delbruck (1978), p. 88. Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California.

Max Delbrück Quotes

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain...

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain...

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain...

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain...