Quotes by Max Perutz - Page 1

What is known for certain is dull.
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Dull
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I rarely plan my research; it plans me.
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Science
Plans
Research
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People are best judged by their actions
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Action
Judged
People
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Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners
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Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object?
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Ultimate Truth
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Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
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Success
Science
Technology
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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.
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Men
Greatness
Memories
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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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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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Girl
Science
Book
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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.
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Nature
Science
Falling In Love
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Scientists like myself merely use their gifts to show up that which already exists, and we look small compared to the artists who create works of beauty out of themselves. If a good fairy came and offered me back my youth, asking me which gifts I would rather have, those to make visible a thing which exists but which no man has ever seen before, or the genius needed to create, in a style of architecture never imagined before, the great Town Hall in which we are dining tonight, I might be tempted to choose the latter.
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Men
Science
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