"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student……" — Sidney Altman
"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."
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16 Quotes by Sidney Altman
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a…
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I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young…
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time…
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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was…
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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and…
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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I…
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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at…
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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in…
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The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail…
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