“Molecular biology has no history for the young scientist,” one of the old guard declared not long ago.
Sydney Brenner qualified that: “I hold the somewhat weaker view that history does exist for the young, but is divided into two epochs: the past two years, and everything that went before.”

— Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (1999)

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