Fred Sanger Quotes

#1. I decided I wanted to go to Cambridge, and then I got introduced to Fred Sanger. I was very conscientious, and I asked him when I first got there if I should start reading up on things. But he said, 'No, I think you can just start these experiments,' so I plunged right in.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#2. The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

Adam Smith

#3. In the 1970s, I did a Ph.D. with Fred Sanger in Cambridge who was in the process of inventing ways to map what's inside DNA. He later won the Nobel Prize.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#4. I was first exposed to the idea of macro-molecular sequences while I was a postdoctoral fellow with Jack Strominger at Harvard. During that time, I briefly visited Fred Sanger's laboratory in Cambridge, England, to learn the methodology of RNA fingerprinting and sequencing.

Richard J. Roberts

#5. The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Karl Marx

#6. I am writing this during my lunch period, because I need to reach towards the outside world of sanity, because I am overwhelmed by the sheer weight of the clerical work still to be done, and because at this hour of the morning normal ladies are still sleeping.

Bel Kaufman

#7. I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

Marilyn Manson

#8. I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger ... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest.

Cesar Milstein

#9. To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

Van Jones

#10. Our object must be to bring our territory into harmony with the numbers of our population.

Adolf Hitler

#11. God personally created every day for each of us.

Sunday Adelaja

#12. It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.

Guy De Maupassant

#13. For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

Ayn Rand

#14. Fred Sanger was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century.

Craig Venter

#15. When the iron is hot, strike.

John Heywood

#16. Darkness is an absence of light. Ego is an absence of awareness.

Osho

#17. Running is always an exercise in humility.

Kristin Armstrong