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Robert K. Merton
The New York Times Book ReviewA fascinating case history...Describes the events that led up to one of the great biological discoveries of our time.
Jacob Bronowski
The NationNo one could miss the excitement in this story of a great and beautiful discovery....The book communicates the spirit of science as no formal account has ever done....the sense of the future, the high spirits, and the rivalry and the guesses right and wrong, the surge of imagination and the test of fact.
Peter B. Medewar
The New York Review of BooksAn enormous success...a classic.
Andre Lwoff
Scientific AmericanThe history of a scientific endeavor, a true detective story that leaves the reader breathless from beginning to end.
Richard FeynmanHe has described admirably how it feels to have that frightening and beautiful experience of making a scientific discovery.
Philip Morrison
LifeLively, wholly brash, full of sharp and sudden opinion, often at the edge of scandal.
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Richard Feynman He has described admirably how it feels to have that frightening and beautiful experience of making a scientific discovery.
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