Biology Quote by Bruce Beutler

Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and…

— Frederick Sanger

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I…

— Sydney Brenner

Of course I went to medical school strongly influenced by my father, I mean the family reason, and secondly I read the biography of…

— Tasuku Honjo

By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how…

— Paul Berg

I think what shaped me was I had two parents who were scientists, and especially, they were great readers. They had both grown up…

— Andrew Sean Greer

I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who…

— Jonathan Trigell

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty,…

— Robert Edwards

Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known on every…

— Zachary Quinto

The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather…

— Denton Cooley

My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early…

— George Emil Palade

This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in…

— H. L. Mencken