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• Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is…
• The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and…
• [I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.
• My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love…
• I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at…
• We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had,…
• I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I…
• Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages…
• I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to…

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