10+ Max Perutz Quotes And Sayings

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

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it. — Max Perutz

What is known for certain is dull. — Max Perutz

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners — Max Perutz

A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined. — Max Perutz

Could the search for ultimate truth really have revealed so hideous and visceral looking an object? — Max Perutz

On hearing the news [of being awarded a Nobel Prize], a friend who knows me only too well, sent me this laconic message: 'Blood, toil, sweat and tears always were a good mixture'. — Max Perutz

Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology. — Max Perutz

For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures. — Max Perutz

People are best judged by their actions — Max Perutz

I rarely plan my research; it plans me. — Max Perutz