Ada Yonath Quotes

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

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.

Everyone is going to die.

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.

I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.

You can't do something forever.

Everything comes to an end.

I'm going now. My time has come.

Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

There ain't nothin' to dyin', really. You just get tired. You kind of drift away.

Death does determine life.

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

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

I'm dying always.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.

In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.

Biology is now bigger than physics, as measured by the size of budgets, by the size of the workforce, or by the output of major discoveries; and biology is likely to remain the biggest part of science through the twenty-first century.

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

When I die.