Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves. — James Black Copy Share Image
Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate. — James Black Copy Share Image
As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use. — James Black Copy Share Image
[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black Copy Share Image
Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype.… — James Black Copy Share Image
I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder… — James Black Copy Share Image
The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to… — James Black Copy Share Image
In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology. — James Black Copy Share Image
Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise. — James Black Copy Share Image
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