Erwin Chargaff (11 August 1905 – 20 June 2002) was an Austro-Hungarian biochemist.
He was immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of b...
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.
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. Erwin Chargaff
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.
You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life. Erwin Chargaff
You can stop splitting the atom; you can stop visiting the moon; you can stop using aerosols; you may even decide not to kill entire populations by the use of a few bombs. But you cannot recall a new form of life.
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
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.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' Erwin Chargaff
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license. Erwin Chargaff
Molecular biology is essentially the practice of biochemistry without a license.
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers. Erwin Chargaff
We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half. Erwin Chargaff
He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.
The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars. Erwin Chargaff
The modern version of Buridan's ass [a figurative description of a man of indecision] has a Ph.D., but no time to grow up as he is undecided between making a Leonardo da Vinci in the test tube or planting a Coca Cola sign on Mars.
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.
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, even man. 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, even man.
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 form of semiparasitic living. 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 form of semiparasitic living.
