A discovery is like falling ...

A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.
 Max Perutz

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Women's liberation could have not succeeded if science had not provided them with contraception and household technology.
 Max Perutz
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 Max Perutz
I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.
 Max Perutz