"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."

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Source : Sidney Altman's speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

Sidney Altman

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“I tweet when the tweet arrives. Never force a tweet or you will hurt your babymaker - and this is true of literature as well.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.”
“I mean some doctor told me I had six months to live and I went to their funeral.”
“If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being God's child, and having God as his Father. If this is not the thought that prompts and controls his worship and prayers and his whole outlook on life, it means that he does not understand Christianity very well at all.”
“The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.”
“You might be feeling sick or a little down, but the second you hit the stage and hear the crowd, you're ready to perform. That's what a true performer is.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.”
“I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

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