I rarely plan my research; it plans me.
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners - Max Perutz
Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners
- 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 … - 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 …
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? - Max Perutz
Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tear… - Max Perutz
On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tear…
I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chem… - Max Perutz
I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chem…
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. - Max Perutz
Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
People are best judged by their actions - Max Perutz
People are best judged by their actions
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of bea… - Max Perutz
Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of bea…
I rarely plan my research; it plans me. - Max Perutz
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