Top 7 Max Delbruck Quotes
#1. Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."
Max Delbruck
#2. No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs
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#3. [Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.
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#4. The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.
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#5. A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology.
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#6. The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on ... This was the greatest surprise for everyone.
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#7. Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.
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