Erwin Chargaff Quotes

There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

Erwin Chargaff

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• Yeah, good to be here. I haven't been here in two years...no applause...thanks. It's that warmth I've missed in Austin. Adding extra Southern drawl So, we been here, ain't our fault you gotta travel around, shit. We supposed to follow you around? You supposed to be back here. What are you doin', where are you?

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Thanks

• From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Truth

• Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Sometimes
  • Risk
  • Use

• I have not the particular shining bauble or feather in my cap for crowds to gaze at or kneel to, but I have power and resolution for foes to tremble at.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Power

• When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Fight

• I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Way
  • Knows
  • Paris

• I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.

  

  William Rehnquist
  • Pornography

• In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Force
  • Rule

• A prince should suspect everything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Prince
  • Suspect

• At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

  

  Willard Wigan
  • World
  • School
  • Pain

• We just like to make great songs and have fun, and if people want to nominate us for a Grammy and celebrate it, then we'll take it.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Fun
  • Celebrate
  • Grammy

• Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Music
  • Money
  • Creative

• I love thongs. The day they were invented, sunshine broke through the clouds.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Clouds
  • Sunshine
  • Broke

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Created
  • Self-respect
  • Power Of Soul

• The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

  

  Andrew Comiskey
  • Identity
  • Created
  • Gender

• There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.

  

  Erwin Chargaff
  • Created
  • Mechanism
  • Winds