“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
“There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.” PeopleIfsWayYearsMindHumansBodyScienceDeathFoundCenturyMassRadioPlentyHistorianVietnamMinorsHuman HistoryAvenuesPentagonMadisonAxesAuschwitzHiroshimaDresdenSignpostsMadison AvenueNapalm Book:Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science Source: Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science
