Daniel Nathans Quotes

11 quotes in 213 categories

• First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
• And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
• The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
• As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
• So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice.…
• Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a…
• People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom…
• My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or…
• At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
• I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

Browse Daniel Nathans Quotes by Category