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The author Horace Freeland Judson was a MacArthur fellow, no wonder he found the time to write this bible!
On the Internet Archive Open Library:
Max Delbrück is quoted as saying:
So in retrospect what the denouement was, was that both the principle of replication and the principle of readout are DNA very simple, and the actual machinery for doing it is immensely complex. That's the way it has turned out."
Nice way to put it.
When Thomas F. Anderson had started taking and publishing the first phage electron microscope images:
Now, Anderson later wrote, "We could really see the phage as tadpole­ shaped particles, whose heads ranged from 600 to 800 A [...] Anderson wrote. "I remember particularly the reaction of Alfred Hershey's teacher, kindly old Professor J. J. Bronfenbrenner, who had worked on bacteriophages for many years at Washington University in St. Louis. ... When he first saw our pictures ... he clapped the palm of his hand to his forehead and exclaimed, 'Mein Gott! They've got tails!'"
Nice quote from Pauling's Nobel Prize speech highlighting the power and required accuracy of chemical ball and stick models:
The requirements are stringent ones. [...]. In order that the principles of modem structural chemistry may be applied with the power that their reliability justifies, molecular models must be constructed with great accuracy. For example, molecular models on the scale of 2.5 cm 1 angstrom unit, have to be made with a precision better than 0.01 cm.
The book has a few reprints:

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