Quotes I Like
Teaching and Research
Prof. Gautam R. Desiraju
“Teaching without research resembles a pond of stagnant water. The water stands stale and contaminated. Research without teaching is a mirage. We can only imagine the water in the pool.”,
Gautam R. "Science in a changing world." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50.25 (2011): 5590-5591.
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Science is not a quiet life
Max Perutz
Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1962, which he shared with John Kendrew for their studies of the structures of hemoglobin and globular proteins
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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind
As he had said it: "Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés."
Louis Pasteur
French microbiologist, chemist, pioneer of the "Germ theory of disease", and inventor of the process of Pasteurization.
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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
Jonas Salk
Jonas Salk was born October 28, 1914, in New York City. In 1942 at the University of Michigan School of Public Health he became part of a group that was working to develop a vaccine against the flu. In 1947 he became head of the Virus Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh. At Pittsburgh he began research on polio. On April 12, 1955, the vaccine was released for use in the United States. He established the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in 1963. Salk died in 1995.
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Other interesting quotes by Jonas Salk:
"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."
