“So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.”

— George Gamow

About the origin of his interest in biology in an "Interview with George Gamow", by Charles Weiner at Professor Gamow's home in Boulder, Colorado (25 April 1968)

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