There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.
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.
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…
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. - Erwin Chargaff
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
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…
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality. - Erwin Chargaff
One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
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.
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