The lac Operon Quotes

“One has to grow old to understand the functioning of science. Then one may remember the papers which a long time ago aroused great interest and one may compare them to the present-day textbooks. [...] History becomes smooth, too smooth in writing. Right starts are forgotten, wrong expeditions into the desert disappear without a trace. Only a few papers will be cited.”
― Benno Müller-Hill, The Lac Operon: A Short History of a Genetic Paradigm by Müller-Hill, Benno (1996) Paperback