Erwin Chargaff Quotes

A collection of quotes by Erwin Chargaff.

Erwin Chargaff was a renowned Austrian-American biochemist, born on August 11, 1905, in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary (now part of Ukraine). His significant contributions to genetics and molecular biology laid the foundation for understanding the structure of DNA. Chargaff's most notable discovery, known as Chargaff's rules, highlighted the equal proportion of adenine and thymine, as well as guanine and cytosine bases in DNA. His work was fundamental to Watson and Crick's double helix model of DNA. Chargaff held academic positions at various prestigious institutions and was widely recognized for his exceptional scientific achievements. He passed away on June 20, 2002, in New York City.

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a sc

Outside his own ever-narrowing field of specialization, a scientist is a layman. What members of an academy of science have in common is a certain form of semiparasitic living.

Erwin Chargaff

Science

Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but no

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

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Science

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?

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

Erwin Chargaff

Science