When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist. — James Rothman Copy Share Image
As physics students, we are taught that physicists are smart, that chemists are moderately acceptable, and that biologists are certainly not very intelligent. So… — James Rothman Copy Share
I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients… — James Rothman Copy Share
The truth is that anyone, almost anyone, who receives the Nobel Prize has some indirect knowledge of one sort or another that they may… — James Rothman Copy Share
In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce… — James Rothman Copy Share
I became aware of the very complex internal organization in a cell from the basic science classes, and it made me think about how… — James Rothman Copy Share
One of the major lessons in all of biochemistry, cell biology and molecular medicine is that when proteins operate at the sub cellular level,… — James Rothman Copy Share
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success. — James Rothman Copy Share
When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist. — James Rothman Copy Share
I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to… — James Rothman Copy Share
