Top 27 Doudna Quotes

#1. I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

Jennifer Doudna

#2. As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.

Jennifer Doudna

#3. When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

Robert Moss

#4. I just love Bayonne. I love the parks. I love the pizzerias. I love the simple things in life, and it's all here.

Tammy Blanchard

#5. I think that for a lot of women there's a subtle but unfortunately effective discouragement of women pursuing the STEM fields.

Jennifer Doudna

#6. Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

David Marusek

#7. We found that CAS9 has the ability to make a double-stranded break in DNA at sites that are programmed by a small RNA molecule. What was so important was that we could really show how the CAS9 protein worked.

Jennifer Doudna

#8. No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

E. O. Wilson

#9. One of the problems in the biotech world is the lack of women in leadership roles, and I'd like to see that change by walking the walk.

Jennifer Doudna

#10. At heart he was a secret Quaker and football was pure violence. The coach was always telling him to "hit them harder." The coach wanted him to put opposing players "out of commission." He kept it to himself but wondered what the point of the "game" was if your intention was to hurt people badly.

Jim Harrison

#11. I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

Jennifer Doudna

#12. She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.

Tonya Hurley

#13. People get comfortable with technologies.

Jennifer Doudna

#14. The more we know, the more we realize there is to know.

Jennifer Doudna

#15. Understanding how Cas9 is able to locate specific 20-base-pair target sequences within genomes that are millions to billions of base pairs long may enable improvements to gene targeting and genome editing efforts in bacteria and other types of cells.

Jennifer Doudna

#16. You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.

Rachael Ray

#17. Be choosy. Know what you want. Say what you want. When you speak, be very definite. When

Frederick Eikerenkoetter

#18. While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.

Natalie MacLean

#19. There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

Denis O'Hare

#20. The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.

Jennifer Doudna

#21. I don't think of myself as a role model, but I can see that I am.

Jennifer Doudna

#22. We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That's how art works. It's never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It's the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We've got to be patient enough to wait for them.

Pat Conroy

#23. Is it more ethical to edit embryos or to screen a lot of embryos and throw them away? I don't know the answer.

Jennifer Doudna

#24. The universe never says no to your thought about yourself. It only grows it.

Neale Donald Walsch

#25. In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.

Jennifer Doudna

#26. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Rod McKuen

#27. The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

Jennifer Doudna

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