Georgios Papanikolaou famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.
-- Georgios Papanikolaou

#Cancer #Cells #Careers

It's a scary word, 'cancer.
Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.
The American Cancer Society tried to ruin my research foundation.
This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous, even though he has no talent for chemistry.
The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most peoples cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home, you feel impacted by not having it. Its an important part of your daily function and what you can do in a day.
For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself.
It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Georgios Papanikolaou famous quotes

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