Max Perutz Quotes

#1. Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.

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#2. People are best judged by their actions

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#3. Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

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#4. Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?

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#5. What is known for certain is dull.

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#6. On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'.

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#7. I rarely plan my research; it plans me.

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#8. For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.

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