Felix Bloch Quotes
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Bloch, Felix. "Banquet Speech." Les Prix Nobel en 1952, P. A. Norstedt & Söner, 1953.
The “brother of the wolf” refers to the evolution of the dog from the wolf which it now appears took place in just a relatively few generations.
Felix Bloch was a Swiss-American physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements." In 1954–1955, he served for one year as the first Director-General of CERN. Felix Bloch made fundamental theoretical contributions to the understanding of electron behavior in crystal lattices, ferromagnetism, and nuclear magnetic resonance.