How Quote by Frederick Sanger

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

— Shimon Peres

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

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years…

— Simon Kuznets

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

Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he caught the habit of speaking…

— Marie Curie

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

— Elizabeth McGovern

David Milch, twice I got lectures from him about the theory of writing. I told my wife one night when I got home, 'I…

— W. Earl Brown

My father... never required me to study anything, but he knew how to inspire in me a great desire for knowledge. Before learning to…

— Andre-Marie Ampere

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

— George Andrew Olah

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

— Chris Carter

In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and hours as…

— Paul Allen