Analytical Quote by James Black

As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.

— James Black

Pharmacogenomics holds great promise to shed scientific light on the often risky and costly process of drug development, and to provide greater confidence about…

— Mark McClellan

The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow…

— John Vane

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you…

— Terence McKenna

Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to…

— John Vane

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

— James Black

“Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed;…

— Robert Berkow

The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery ... As soon as an Analytical Engine…

— Charles Babbage

Now, what tends to happen is that the stories get hyped. And the medicines are not quite as revolutionary and as dramatic as they…

— Mort Kondracke

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other…

— Linus Pauling