My favourite book as a child was an old 'Newne's Children's Encyclopaedia' which my grandfather had bought just before World War II and donated to our family after seeing how interested we were in it. Each volume had special chapters… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
