Max Perutz Quotes

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A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

Max Perutz
Research consists of formulation of imaginative hypotheses that are open to falsification by experiment.

Max Perutz
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

Max Perutz
The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

Max Perutz
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

Max Perutz
It seems to me that, just as the Church did in former times, science offers a safe niche where you can spend a quiet life classifying spiders, away from what E.M. Forster called the world of telegrams and anger.

Max Perutz
For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.

Max Perutz