“A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . .” IfsKnowsMenWritingTryingCasesKnow HowRecordsScientistOvercomingDifficultyGenreAwkwardAutobiographyMonotonousLiterary Genre Book:Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature Source: Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature
“He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but I don't know which half.” KnowsMenSaidTruthScienceHalfBusyColleaguesPublishPublicationHalf TruthBusy Man Author:Erwin Chargaff
