Daniel Nathans quotes
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“At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.”
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“My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.”
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“People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.”
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“Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.”
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“So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.”
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“As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.”
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“The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.”
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“And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.”
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“First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.”
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“My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months.”
-- Daniel Nathans
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