Herbert Boyer quotes

Herbert Boyer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good. Reported in 1981, as a co-founder of Genentech, Inc., a company to offer gene-splicing products.”
-- Herbert Boyer

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“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”
“Political development should start at the grassroots.”
“Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.”

Source : Speech at the Ceremony to Inaugurate the Restored Humayun's Tomb Gardens, New Delhi, India, www.akdn.org. April 15, 2003.
“The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.”
“A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.”
“My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.”
“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!”
“I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.”
“I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone”
“Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway.”

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