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Erwin Chargaff Quotes

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.20, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.

Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.172, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

Erwin Chargaff (1978). “Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature”, p.6, Paul & Company Pub Consortium

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's

Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco