Jacques Dubochet

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

— Jacques Dubochet

The trouble with vitreous water is that vitrification should be impossible.

— Jacques Dubochet

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

— Jacques Dubochet

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

— Jacques Dubochet

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

— Jacques Dubochet

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I…

— Jacques Dubochet

We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says…

— Jacques Dubochet

We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which…

— Jacques Dubochet

The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in…

— Jacques Dubochet

It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen,…

— Jacques Dubochet