"Cambridge was the place for someone from the……" — Aaron Klug
"Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics."
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14 Quotes by Aaron Klug
Aaron Klug has 14 quotes on this site.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me…
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I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to…
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in…
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My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of…
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in…
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In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the…
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work…
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However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively…
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This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic…
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The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them…
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I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
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I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.
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