Biochemistry Quote by Joshua Lederberg Download Open image “By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.” — Joshua Lederberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biochemistry Education Study Textbooks Time
As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks. — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12, I was starting my high school stuff in home schooling. — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother. — Geoffrey Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background. — William Standish Knowles Copy Share Image
When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects. — David Crane Copy Share Image
I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed… — Leon M. Lederman Copy Share Image
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after… — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department. — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“I would not be among you to-night (being awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) but for the mentors, colleagues and students… — Konrad Bloch Copy Share Image
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Casein [the main protein found in dairy], in fact, is the most 'relevant' chemical carcinogen ever identified; its cancer-producin g effects occur in animals… — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
To describe the overwhelming life of a tropical forest just in terms of inert biochemistry and DNA didn't seem to give a very full… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
We know from astronomy that the universe had a beginning, from physics that the future is both open and unpredictable, from geology and paleontology… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image