Cesar Milstein Quotes

Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

My PhD was not fast out of the gate.

After qualifying for a B.Sc. in pharmacology, I spent a few months in Sheffield University as a research worker in the pharmacology department but then went back to Oxford to the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research in order to study for a D. Phil. with Dr. Geoffrey Dawes.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

In 1996, I received a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Southern California.

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later at a graduate ceremony at which Carnegie Institute of Technology became Carnegie-Mellon University. At Northwestern, I was mentored by the 'three Bobs:' Robert Eisner, Robert Strotz and Robert Clower.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.

I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school.

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.

I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

After my undergraduate, I've written a thesis that was in the government department, but largely, it turned out almost an economic type of thesis. And I was very interested in that, and I wanted to go get a Ph.D. in Economics.