Max Perutz Quotes

#1. I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger ... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest.

Cesar Milstein

#2. A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.

Max F. Perutz

#3. 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.

Max Perutz

#4. Really liking your job isn't the same as loving it.

Gemma Brocato

#5. But," I say, wetting my lips, "but if trust was a thing you could hold in your hand, I would give mine to you. I'd let you have it forever and never ask for it back.

Kristen Simmons

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

Max Perutz

#7. I saw [Linus Pauling] as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Max F. Perutz

#8. Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

Ma Jaya

#9. This Universal wheel, this merry-go-round
In our imagination we have found
The sun a flame, in the Cosmic lantern bound
We are mere ghosts, revolving, the flame surround.

Omar Khayyam

#10. I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.

William Eggleston

#11. Music is such a joy, just an absolute joy.

Mavis Staples

#12. 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'.

Max Perutz

#13. What is known for certain is dull.

Max Perutz

#14. In any case, muffins that are only imaginary aren't liable to get stuck.

Thomas M. Disch

#15. In a field hospital, some ten kilometres behind the lines, Marius lay dying. For three days he had been dying and it was disturbing to the other patients.

Ellen N. La Motte

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

Max Perutz

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

Max Perutz

#18. People are best judged by their actions

Max Perutz

#19. Vandals listen only when others are stronger.
If vandals are equal or stronger
Their word is the last word.

Dejan Stojanovic

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

Max Perutz

#21. In a job where you're on a computer all day, and we cater lunch and we put snacks in the kitchen, well, we all started gaining weight, even though we try to pick healthy stuff, but inevitably you find the cashews.

Biz Stone

#22. Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

Thomas Sowell

#23. In science, truth always wins

Max F. Perutz