"I started taking a basic biology course, and I really loved it. I started asking research questions incessantly. I was drawn very quickly to biology."

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Source : "A Nobel Prize Winner on Why We Need Foundational Research" by Lisa Rosenbaum, www.newyorker.com. October 10, 2013.

James Rothman

#Asking Quotes #Research Quotes #Biology Quotes

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
“I wish I was a little bit taller,”

Source : Song: I Wish, Album: I Wish, 1995
“I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.”
“Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.”
“SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.”
“I've gotten to work with some great people. I've been really lucky.”
“Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.”

Source : "Julie Andrews To CU-Boulder Grads: ‘Be An Ambassador For The Kind Of World That You Want To Live In’". The Boulder Daily Camera with Brittany Anas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.
“The heavens declare the glory of Kepler and Newton.”

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