Peter Agre Quotes

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• Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language…
• My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local…
• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
• Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized…
• Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
• In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
• It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental…
• My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in…
• Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
• Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
• The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
• The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world…
• I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
• Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
• So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical…
• Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no…
• Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a…
• In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
• Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their…

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