"Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry."

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Source : "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

Peter Agre

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“I've always had this strong sense that I know best.”
“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”
“It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.”
“I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And Iâ€™m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that Iâ€™ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think itâ€™s coarsened. Itâ€™s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You canâ€™t go to a movie â€” or watch a television show for that matter â€” without hearing the constant use of the F-word â€” including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know donâ€™t talk like that!”
“It has become more important than ever that we teach students how to do research, and how to evaluate different sources of information. (Jimmy Wales, IB World, 68, Sept. 2013, p.10. )”
“My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.”
“Hire prudently, go slow and donâ€™t go overboard.”
“Soldiers in arms! Defenders of our soil! Who from destruction save us; who from spoil Protect the sons of peace, who traffic or who toil; Would I could duly praise you, that each deed Your foe's might honor, and your friends might read.”

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