Aaron Klug famous quotes

One cannot plan for the unexpected.
-- Aaron Klug

#Unexpected #Plans

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 Klug

#Dominion #Goes On #Physics

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.
-- Aaron Klug

#Teaching #Responsibility #Years

I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.
-- Aaron Klug

#Strong #Interesting #Feels

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.
-- Aaron Klug

#Powerful #Struggle #Curiosity

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.
-- Aaron Klug

#Father #Men #Facts

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.
-- Aaron Klug

#Latin #Philosophy #School

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 Klug

#People #Sometimes #Nobel

The swine who stole my dog doesn't realize what he did to me!

I have had to work long and hard to eradicate the dangerous delusion that, in a bad position, I could always, or nearly always, conjure up some unexpected combination to extricate me from my difficulties.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.

You can't make a recipe for something as complicated as surgery. Instead, you can make a recipe for how to have a team that's prepared for the unexpected.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Announcin' your plans is a good way to hear god laugh.

My home is in Moscow and I have no plans to change this.

I don't really live by plans.

People do not plan to mess up their lives. They just don't plan not to.