James Black Quotes

#1. The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

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#2. I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

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#3. Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

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#4. Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

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#5. My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.

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#6. [I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

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#7. I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

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#8. In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

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#9. As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.

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#10. Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

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#11. Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

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#12. Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.

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