Aaron Klug Quotes

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• One cannot plan for the unexpected.
• 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…
• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it…
• I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
• Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the…
• My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so…
• The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed…
• In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon…
• This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of…
• However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of…
• This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
• The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to…
• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
• Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the…

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