Peter Agre famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
-- Peter Agre

#Water #Form #Wells
Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.
-- Peter Agre

#Teacher #School #Years
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
-- Peter Agre

#Father #People #Generations
Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
-- Peter Agre

#Teacher #School #Made
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
-- Peter Agre

#Thinking #Advice #Scientist
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
-- Peter Agre

#Dad #College #Oxford
Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
-- Peter Agre

#Mother #Support #Grandfather
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
-- Peter Agre

#School #Epidemics #Asia
The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.
-- Peter Agre

#Medicine #Issues #People
The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
-- Peter Agre

#Winter #Careers #Long
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
-- Peter Agre

#Cells #Enthusiasm #Energy
Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
-- Peter Agre

#Commitment #Two #Wife
Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
-- Peter Agre

#Secret #Labs #Study
My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.
-- Peter Agre

#Independent #Medicine #Goal
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
-- Peter Agre

#Discovery #Honor #Fundamentals
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
-- Peter Agre

#Squares #Half #Territory
Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
-- Peter Agre

#Moving #Cells #Water
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
-- Peter Agre

#Christmas #Dad #Dinner
My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
-- Peter Agre

#Summer #Mom #Cousin
Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.
-- Peter Agre

#Teacher #Children #Ignorance

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