My Life in Science

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• One of the amusing things was that Max Delbrück didn't believe this hypothesis of the unstable intermediate. But I said to François 'You know we are fine.' And he asked 'Why?' ANd I replied, 'Because Max doesn't believe in it!' Max was marvelous you know. He was always wrong. George Streisinger tells a story in an essay that he once came out of Max's office looking very depressed and someone asked him 'What's the matter?' George replied, 'Max likes my theory, it must be wrong!' So I told François, 'Don't worry. Max thinks it's wrong, so we must be right!' (查看原文)

  鲁智深 2014-12-23 19:54:01

• "It was a very comforting thing that no one else in the world was working on a project. That's the greatest thing for morale in a lab. Because if you sit in a laboratory and you think, 'My God, there are a hundred labs working on this project and each of these have forty people in them. That's four thousand to one that I'm not going to win.' These are terrible odds and that simply means that on one does anything. What is wonderful is to be able to say, 'This is exclusive, so to speak, at this stage and we can do this without having the hordes come in and industrialize it.' I always believed that the best thing in science is to work out of phase. That is, either half a wavelength ahead or half a wavelength behind. It doesn't matter. As long as you're out of phase with the fashion you can do... (查看原文)

  鲁智深 2014-12-30 13:34:24

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