Daniel Nathans famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Careers #Interesting #Close Friends
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.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Opportunity #Years #Parent
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.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Views #People #Interesting
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.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Senior #Team #Order
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.
-- Daniel Nathans

#School #Choices #Lucky
As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Looks #Way #Lasts
The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Physicians #Glimpse #Frailty
And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Medical #Genes #Protein
First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
-- Daniel Nathans

#Mutation #Disease #Firsts
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

#Summer #Jobs #School

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