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Day science calls into play arguments that mesh like gears, results that have the force of certainty. ... Conscious of its progress, proud of its past, sure of its future, day science advances in light and glory. By contrast, night science wanders blind. It hesitates, stumbles, recoils, sweats, wakes with a start. Doubting everything, it is forever trying to find itself, question itself, pull itself back together. Night Science is a sort of workshop of the
possible where what will become the building material of science is worked out."
—François Jacob
Of Flies, Mice, and Men
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Photo of the Janelia Farm Research Campus under construction: Paul Fetters
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Reprinted from the
HHMI Bulletin,
Summer 2004,
pages 28-32.
©2004 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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Bespectacled and bearded, clad today in shirt and tie instead of his trademark black turtleneck and trousers, Gerald M. Rubin doesn't look much like a biblical figure. But in his role as director of Janelia Farm Research Campus, Rubin has been called a modern day Noah, readying his "ark" and rounding up the best and brightest scientists—of every stripe—to fill it. continued...
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