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Erwin Chargaff

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “how?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “why?”

Erwin Chargaff

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The stress on mechanisms has given rise to one of the curses of our time: the expert. It has made body mechanics out of physicians and cell mechanics out of biologists; and if the philosopher cannot yet be called a brain mechanic, this is only a sign of his backwardness.

Erwin Chargaff

genius erwin chargaff

If Herostratos has earned immortality for having burned down the temple of Artemis in Ephesos, maybe the man from whom he got the matches ought not to be entirely forgotten.

Erwin Chargaff

genius erwin chargaff

It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If he has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense, invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist. The blacker the night, the brighter the light.

Erwin Chargaff

genius erwin chargaff

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Erwin Chargaff

genius erwin chargaff

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

Erwin Chargaff

genius erwin chargaff

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Erwin Chargaff