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Erwin Chargaff

11 August 1905-20 June 2002

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Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

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Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"