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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• I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Day
  • Lunch
  • Chicken

• 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

• When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Law
  • Christianity
  • Morality

• 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

• What makes economies successful is creative ideas.

  

  Shaun Bailey
  • Ideas
  • Creative
  • Economies

• The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Stills

• No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Relation
  • Civilized
  • Advanced

• 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