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Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and t

Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science. – Paul Nurse

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It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. – Paul Nurse

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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. – Paul Nurse

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Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life. – Paul Nurse

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Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, lifes pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation. – Wilhelm Reich

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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them. – Neils Bohr

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A biophysicist talks physics to the biologists and biology to the physicists, but then he meets another biophysicist, they just discuss women. – Author Unknown

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Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. – Michael P. Anderson

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