“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.” FormCertainCommonFieldsMembersScientistAcademySpecializationLayman Book:Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science Source: Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science
“There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear. In my own field the biochemist Fritz Lipmann or the much maligned Linus Pauling were very talented people. But generally, geniuses everywhere seem to have died out by 1914. Today, most are mediocrities blown up by the winds of the time.” PeopleMenRealSeemsTodayMy OwnImpossibleFieldsWindGeniusDiedMediocrityMechanismReal Genius Author:Erwin Chargaff
