Ability Quote by Ernest Lawrence

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

— Polykarp Kusch

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a…

— Jack Steinberger

[At DuPont,] I was very fortunate that I worked under men who were very much interested in making discoveries and inventions. They were very…

— Stephanie Kwolek

I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

— Bonnie Bassler

I started the nuclear medicine laboratory at UW Hospitals in 1959 and trained radiology residents in the field. It was 1965 before they found…

— John Cameron

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made…

— Jerome Isaac Friedman

When I entered medical physics in 1958 there were fewer than 100 in the U.S. and I could see many opportunities to apply my…

— John Cameron

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

I was lucky to be passionate about a field that was full of opportunity.

— Frances Arnold

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company…

— Frederick Reines

What brought me here was a desire to keep playing and the exciting project the Cosmos proposed to me. As well as being able…

— Raul