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Erwin Chargaff

Erwin Chargaff was an Austrian biochemist who was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school.

Chargaff proposed main rules in his lifetime related to DNA studies best known as Chargaff's Rules.


“Scientific fashions last longer than women's fashions but not as long as men's”
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“Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.”
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“If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.”
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“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “how?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “why?”
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