"If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette."

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Source : "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin Can Help Cure Aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

Aubrey de Grey

#People Quotes #Looks Quotes #Winner Quotes

“Energy is the inherent capacity of the universe to make matter exist.”
“I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.”
“The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.”
“My family couldn't be more supportive. They're worried and they're always in my business, and my mother does send me grad-school applications every now and again.”
“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.”
“I get really excited about jewelry.”
“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”
“Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution and that even now, when the preponderance of work is experimental, the basis for interpretation in many areas of study remains the form and relationships of structures.”

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