We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have… — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate. — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's… — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone… — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
The trouble with vitreous water is that vitrification should be impossible. — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which drug disentangles… — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing. — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up. — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world is large, very large. My head is small, quite small. There is no way I can put the world in my head.… — Jacques Dubochet Copy Share Image
