Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Salvador E. Luria, fully Salvador Edward Luria
Italian-born American Microbiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology
"Significant advances in science often have a peculiar quality: they contradict obvious, commonsense opinions."
"The world of science may be the only existing participatory democracy."
"The story of one’s life path acquires humane significance from the contacts with other human beings. Dante’s allegory, seeking insight and understanding in the words of the dwellers of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, is also an allegory of life deeply shared. Even as one approaches the end of the journey, one hopes, like Dante, for one final stretch of meaningful toil."