Frederick Sanger Quotes

There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.

I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

I had become monomaniacal about DNA only in 1951 when I had just turned 23 and as a postdoctoral fellow was temporarily in Naples attending a small May meeting on biologically important macromolecules.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

The media plays up celebrity a lot, but it doesn't hold a candle to being a scientist. There's a lot to be said for what they all do, and are trying to accomplish.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

We're not going to outgrow our need for information.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

Write about what you want to know.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

I love information. I can never get enough. I get bored easily.

Ribofunk indicates a focus on biology as the upcoming big science in the way that physics was for the last 50 or 100 years. If you look for a biological thread throughout science fiction, you can find it, but it's a very small percentage of the total. That's been changing in the last few years.

I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.