James Black Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.”
-- James Black

#Independent Quotes #Men Quotes #Discovery Quotes
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.”
-- James Black

#Science Quotes #Wish Quotes #Biographies Quotes
“Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.”
-- James Black

#School Quotes #Math Quotes #Years Quotes
“I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.”
-- James Black

#Summer Quotes #Balls Quotes #Students Quotes
“We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.”
-- James Black

#Home Quotes #Views Quotes #Perspective Quotes
“I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.”
-- James Black

#Passion Quotes #Progress Quotes #Tissues Quotes
“My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.”
-- James Black

#Father Quotes #Singing Quotes #His Love Quotes
“[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.”
-- James Black

#Dream Quotes #Discipline Quotes #Joy Quotes
“The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.”
-- James Black

#Technique Quotes #Research Quotes #Study Quotes
“[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.”
-- James Black

#Optimistic Quotes #Science Quotes #Vision Quotes

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