Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Quotes: Science (7)


 Science            181          ."..to wipe diphtheria from the earth...wasn’t a science--it was a crusade..." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            181          "...he [Roux] worked to save [lives] rather than to know." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            184          "For a moment he [Roux] had caught Pasteur’s madness, his strange trick of knowing what all men thought wrong to be right...." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            186          "...scientists have reason occasionally to curse all authorities no matter how benevolent...." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters.

Science            200          "Microbe hunting is a story of amazing stupidities, fine intuitions, insane paradoxes." DeKruif, Microbe Hunters. So much for the nice, clear-cut scientific method.

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