"The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career……" — Randy Schekman
"The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best."
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12 Quotes by Randy Schekman
Randy Schekman has 12 quotes on this site.
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It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also…
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal…
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours…
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my…
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card…
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Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for…
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More Advancement Quotes
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement…
— Niels Bohr
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a…
— William S. Burroughs
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Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
— Clarence Clemons
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The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot…
— George Washington
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The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . .…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career…
— Patrick Lencioni
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it…
— Eric Hoffer
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I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President…
— Heber J. Grant
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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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