Sidney Altman Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Famous Quotes by Sidney Altman
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“About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.”
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“At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme.”
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“By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.”
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“Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.”
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“For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.”
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“Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.”
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“However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education.”
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“I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.”
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“I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.”
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“I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.”
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