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Quotes from Interview with Max Delbruck — Max Delbrück

1906–1981 Germany

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The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.

Interview with Max Delbruck (1978)

If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".

Interview with Max Delbruck (1978)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Max Delbrück (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.