Noah Emmerich Quotes

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.

The subject I was best at in school was biology.

No, I majored in biology, in a pre-med program.

I would be the worst biologist in the world!

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

I have a biology degree, okay?

People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

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.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

I had always wanted to become a neurologist, which is one of the most demanding vocations in medicine. Where do you stop, after all, with the brain? How does it function? What are its limits? The work seems unending.

I really enjoyed my degree, for me it was the best course you can do. To be able to study the brain and nervous system and the mind with a scientific approach is just incredible! Its philosophical, psychological and biological, three very interesting areas to me.

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.

My degree is in biology, and it will always be my first love. Evolution, ecology, genetics - they were the textbooks I was devouring as a teenager, and it was there that my love of science grew.