Paul Berg

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

— Paul Berg

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur…

— Paul Berg

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them…

— Paul Berg

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach…

— Paul Berg

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship…

— Paul Berg

With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.

— Paul Berg

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had…

— Paul Berg

Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of…

— Paul Berg

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary…

— Paul Berg

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and…

— Paul Berg

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that…

— Paul Berg

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

— Paul Berg

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act…

— Paul Berg