The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

2 annotations Jan 2023 data

Introduction

  • Her work also illustrates, as Leonardo da Vinci's did, that the key to innovation is connecting a curiosity about basic science to the practical work of devising tools that can be applied to our lives—moving discoveries from lab bench to bedside.

Chapter 2

  • As the science fiction writer and biochemistry professor Isaac Asimov later noted concerning the genesis of evolutionary theory, "What you needed was someone who studied species, read Malthus