3 Quotes & Sayings By Erwin Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1913. He became a full professor at the University of Toronto in 1968 and was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush Read more

Dr. Chargaff received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Vienna and did postdoctoral research at Harvard and Rockefeller universities. He has written more than two hundred scientific papers and two books, The Genetic Structure of DNA (1954) and DNA: A Second Century (1992).

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It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If he has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense, invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist. The blacker the night, the brighter the light. Erwin Chargaff
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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' Erwin Chargaff