"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."

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Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, p. 88, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.

Max Delbruck

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