Frases de Erwin Chargaff

“Lo que veo venir es un matadero gigantesco, un Auschwitz molecular, en el que en lugar de dientes de oro se extraerán las enzimas, las hormonas y todas las cosas que se consideren valiosas.”

“La ciencia natural no es un instrumento que sirva para investigar lo insondable; [tampoco es] su papel el de decidir sobre la existencia o inexistencia de Dios.”

“No se puede hacer que vuelva atrás una nueva forma de vida.”

“What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, a molecular Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.”

“In 1945, therefore, I proved a sentimental fool; and Mr. Truman could safely have classified me among the whimpering idiots he did not wish admitted to the presidential office. For I felt that no man has the right to decree so much suffering, and that science, in providing and sharpening the knife and in upholding the ram, had incurred a guilt of which it will never get rid. It was at that time that the nexus between science and murder became clear to me. For several years after the somber event, between 1947 and 1952, I tried desperately to find a position in what then appeared to me as a bucolic Switzerland,—but I had no success.”

“We do not know what life is, and yet we manipulate it as if it were an inorganic salt solution…”

“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.”

“Visionaries of uncomfortable truths are mostly dismissed as fools.”