Biology Quote by George Emil Palade

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president…

— Torsten Wiesel

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

— Robert T. Bakker

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I…

— Eric Kandel

I wanted to go to Harvard because it felt like it would be the Hogwarts Academy of law schools.

— Lisa Joy

In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new…

— Michael Smith

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky…

— Daniel Nathans

I went to Yale for undergrad.

— Kevin Olusola

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

— Harry Mathews

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that…

— Sydney Brenner

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered…

— Paul Berg

When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.

— Kathleen Rubins

I came to New York in 1948 at 19, after one term at Harvard. Well, Harvard wasn't for me at all.

— Bill Cunningham