Archibald Garrod famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All the more recent work on alkaptonuria has... strengthened the belief that the homogentisic acid excreted is derived from tyrosin, but why alkaptonuric individuals pass the benzene ring of their tyrosin unbroken and how and where the peculiar chemical change from tyrosin to homogentisic acid is brought about, remain unsolved problems.
-- Archibald Garrod

#Peculiar #Unbroken #Acid
Inborn errors of metabolism.
-- Archibald Garrod

#Errors #Metabolism #Biochemistry
Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.
-- Archibald Garrod

#Science #Hands #Imagination
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.
-- Archibald Garrod

#Science #Thinking #Smell

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.
My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.
Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction.
To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.
I could sell used battery acid and make it fly.
I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.
It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

Archibald Garrod famous quotes

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