Aaron Klug Quotes

#1. This is my story and Jethros' journey, through my eyes

Mercy Cortez

#2. The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Aaron Klug

#3. Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.

Johnny Mercer

#4. I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.

Aaron Klug

#5. However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students.

Aaron Klug

#6. My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Klug

#7. Miracles are creative. Healing is the restoration of what has been.

John G. Lake

#8. One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Aaron Klug

#9. Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Aaron Klug

#10. People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

Aaron Klug

#11. As I'm writing, I start to see connections, and themes I didn't see, and that sparks other things. So then I go back and rewrite things or alter them. It's a combination of intuition and a lot of finessing. It becomes a combination of the rational and the irrational.

Charlie Kaufman

#12. 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.

Aaron Klug

#13. I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

Stanley Hauerwas

#14. It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

David Caruso

#15. Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

Sherman Alexie

#16. The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#17. I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

Elizabeth Berkley

#18. Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Aaron Klug

#19. Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.

Paul Bloom

#20. I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

David Amram

#21. Shortly after I was born he emigrated to Durban, where members of my mother's family had settled at the turn of the century, and the rest of the family followed soon thereafter.

Aaron Klug

#22. How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!

Seneca The Younger

#23. When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

John Le Carre

#24. In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

Aaron Klug

#25. I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

Aaron Klug

#26. The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results.

Aaron Klug

#27. I would rather walk alone in the light than with many in the dark doom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.

Aaron Klug