“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
“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
“The narrow slit through which the scientist, if he wants to be successful, must view nature constructs, if this goes on for a long time, his entire character; and, more often than not, he ends up becoming what the German language so appropriately calls a Fachidiot (professional idiot).” IfsMenWantLongEndsCharacterScienceLanguageViewsSuccessfulGoes OnBecomingLong TimeScientistIdiotBeing SuccessfulConstructsSlitsGerman Language Author:Erwin Chargaff
