Approach Quote by Paul Nurse

I grew up amongst biologists.

— Margaret Atwood

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.

— Daniel Nathans

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I…

— Sydney Brenner

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.

— Peggy Whitson

I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to…

— James Rothman

At the National Institute for Medical Research, I came into contact with biological scientists and formed collaborative projects with several of them. In particular,…

— John Cornforth

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

— Robert B. Laughlin

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.

— Simon Newcomb

I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley…

— Bernard Beckett

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

— Elizabeth Blackburn

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial…

— Paul Nurse