"The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism."

--

Source : J. Michael BISHOP (2004). “How to Win the Nobel Prize”, p.12, Harvard University Press

J. Michael Bishop

#Research Quotes #Complicated Quotes #Modern Quotes

“My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.”
“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
“Somedayâ€™ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.â€¦ If itâ€™s important to you and you want to do it â€˜eventually,â€™ just do it and correct course along the way.”
“I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heart and say to my soul, I am your salvation. Let me run toward this voice and seize hold of you. Do not hide your face from me: let me die so that I may see it, for not to see it would be death to me indeed.”
“Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.”
“I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.”
“I know something about dread myself, and appreciate the elaborate systems with which some people fill the void, appreciate all the opiates of the people, whether they are as accessible as alcohol and ***** and promiscuity or as hard to come by as faith in God or History.”

You may also like: