Daniel Nathans Quotes
"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Medical, Choice, School, Students, University, Washington)
"Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Life, Science, Order, Research, World)
"The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Strength)
"My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Opportunity, Freedom, Parents, states, United, World, Years)
"First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: First)
"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Career, Friends)
"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Life, Fortune)
"And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Medical, Will)
"People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: People, Earth, Value)
"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
- Daniel Nathans
(Related: Research)