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@tristrambrelstaff@mathstodon.xyz He brought it up himself in "The Double Helix", no doubt in a self-deprecating vein: > Briefly, the Indiana biochemists encouraged me to learn organic chemistry, but after I used a Bunsen burner to warm up some benzene, I was relieved from further true chemistry. It was safer to turn out an uneducated Ph.D. than to risk another explosion. (cc. @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)