Aaron Klug quotes
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“Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.”
-- Aaron KlugSource : "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.
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“I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibilities have forced me to shed much of it in recent years.”
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“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
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“Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.”
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“My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.”
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“The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.”
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“People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.”
-- Aaron KlugSource : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Interview, library.cshl.edu. June 17, 2005.
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“The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!”
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“Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.”
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“My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.”
Source : Interview with Ian Cobain, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2007.
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“I don't really live by plans.”
Source : "Andrea Corr interview: I got excited about music again" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. June 10, 2011.
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“People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.”
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