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

Max Delbruck

#3. I read the books, get some, Listen to others, get little but what i get the most is to sit and think.

Khem Veasna

#4. All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Albert Einstein

#5. [Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions.

Max Delbruck

#6. I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

Jay Mohr

#7. 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.

Max Delbruck

#8. We live in the most probable of all possible worlds.

Stephen Hawking

#9. 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.

Max Delbruck

#10. The eyes were large and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

Ross Thomas

#11. 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.

Max Delbruck

#12. Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors.

Max Delbruck

#13. Never heard you talk about a man this way. Usually you rattle off their attributes like you're fixing to fricassee the poor sons of bitches. God help the poor bastard you ever fall in love with.

Leslea Tash