Peter Agre Quotes
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
Agre, Peter. "Telephone Interview." Interview by Marika Griehsel. NobelPrize.org, Nobel Foundation, 8 Oct. 2003.
In science it is instinctive and necessary to accept and consider seriously contrary views because if not considered, we may go in an erroneous direction and not learn the truth. This instinct is just the opposite of the norm in politics. In partisan politics, ideology is a dominant driver, and ideas contrary to our ideology are rarely considered because of this logic: If the idea is wrong, we will just waste our valuable time and resources. If it might possibly be right, it would throw our ideology into question and this would cause too much disruption of shake our institutional values which are more important than one point. Besides, if we changed on the basis of a contrary thought, we would be accused of being a flip flopper with no basic principles. For scientists, change and expansion of ideas is essential to the advancement of science. In politics, most practitioner regard it as success if the can govern in the exact way that their political ideology guides them. Few want to reform or alter their ideology. Those who do so are either rejected by the body politic, or who become the greatest of our leaders and politicians.
This is an extract from a well-known standard for college professors.
The theme song for the popular radio series, The Lone Ranger, was the finale from the classical music composition, The William Tell Overture.
Peter Agre /ˈɑːɡriː/ is an American physician, Nobel Laureate, and molecular biologist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute. In 2003, Agre and Roderick MacKinnon shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes." Agre was recognized for his discovery of aquaporin water channels. Aquaporins are water-channel proteins that move water molecules through the cell membrane. In 2009, Agre was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and became active in science diplomacy.
