John Updike, 1932-2009
Here is my favorite poem about science. I found it stuck on the wall in my empty lab when I first came to Columbia in the fall of 1982. It is still tacked to my corkboard, yellowing and frayed. V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick (inspired by V.B. Wigglesworth, F.R.S., Quick Professor of Biology at the University …