Stanley B. Prusiner famous quotes

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is their intellect from which springs creativity.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Spring #Creativity #Unique

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Goal #Disease #Figures

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of these might have been highly favored.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Two #Might #Steps

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Unique #Brain #Branches

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Philosophy #Opportunity #Russian History

Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to natures most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Opportunity #Creative #Secret

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Independent #Data #Nobel

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.
-- Stanley B. Prusiner

#Believe #Thinking #Skills

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.

So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.

The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.