The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Introduction
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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
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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