One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, … - Erwin Chargaff
If you can modify a cell, it's only a short step to modifying a mouse, and if you can modify a mouse, it's only a step to modifying a higher animal, …
- Erwin Chargaff
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire c… - Erwin Chargaff
The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire c…
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an… - Erwin Chargaff
Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an…
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. - Erwin Chargaff
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. - Erwin Chargaff
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks. - Erwin Chargaff
When the so-called think tanks began to replace the thought processes of human beings, I called them the aseptic tanks.
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain fo… - Erwin Chargaff
Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain fo…
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-tha… - Erwin Chargaff
The results serve to disprove the tetranucleotide hypothesis. It is, however, noteworthy-whether this is more than accidental, cannot yet be said-tha…
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. - Erwin Chargaff
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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