Christian de Duve Quotes

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

I always wanted to be a medical doctor, and I never thought of business.

My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

No one ever said, 'Be a doctor.' But because so many members of my extended family - aunts, uncles - were doctors, there was this expectation that I'd probably be a physician.

I wanted to be a doctor since I was five.

My dream is to be a doctor. I'm almost working in a laboratory, because I'm trying new techniques, new directions and fabrics, new weaving.

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I want to do something in medicine, for sure. I don't know what, exactly, that entails, but something along those lines.

I like medicine. Even if I was selling a million books a year, I would still be a doctor.

If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into computers.

I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

If I wasn't singing country music for a living, I was actually going to school to be a doctor.

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts.

I always wanted to follow in the footsteps of my maternal grandfather, who was a doctor.

As I've met clinicians in my travels, time after time I've been inspired to hear why people went into medicine: to apply their way-above-average minds (and hearts) to work that's beyond most people's capacity, and perhaps save a few lives.

For as long as I can really remember, I wanted to be a doctor.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son's a doctor, and I still take some medical journals to this day.

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

I was supposed to go into nuclear medicine and become a doctor.

I don't like blood - I was trying to study to be a doctor, but I don't like blood.

My family's very medical, so as a field, that, I think, it's so important and wonderful, something I'm definitely interested in. Just not for a living!

I wanted to be a doctor, that was the goal.

There came a time when I had to decide between show business and devoting my full time to medical training. I chose show business.