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AVOID BORING PEOPLE: Lessons from a Life in ScienceI saw Lawrence and Alice Bragg at their country home near the Suffolk coast. In England, most of the reviews were favorable. The most critical was by the embryologist C. H. Waddington, who thought me verging toward Salvador Dali-like manic egocentricity. By the year's end, some seventy thousand books had sold in the United States and British sales approached thirty thousand. Given its generally high praise and wide visibility, Tom Wilson thought I would be a shoo-in for the 1969 National Book Award in science. But it went to Yale's Robert Jay Lifton for Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima. Though I was disappointed, I no longer needed others to tell me I had written a book worth reading. б б б б Remembered Lessons 1. Be the first to tell a good story In 1953 the finding of the double helix by itself did not create the opportunity for an important new textbook. Any such book written the next year necessarily would have been dominated by other facts already well documentedБЂ”and which still constituted most of what was known on the subject of life's nature ...» |
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