7+ Max Delbruck Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Max Delbruck quotes and sayings.

Any living cell carries with it the experience of a billion years of experimentation by its ancestors. — Max Delbruck

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. — Max Delbruck

If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, you nail it down. So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness". — Max Delbruck

A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology. — Max Delbruck

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world. — Max Delbruck

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved." — Max Delbruck

No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs — Max Delbruck