Gunter Blobel Quotes

#1. In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.

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#2. Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.

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#3. It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

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#4. I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

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#5. In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'

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#6. Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

Rajneesh

#7. Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.

Andreas Feininger

#8. After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.

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#9. Driving through Dresden, I still remember the many palaces, happily decorated with cherubs and other symbols of the baroque era. The city made an indelible impression on me.

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#10. I had five brothers and sisters. Four of them older, and some of them played instruments, and we would get together and have family recitals and raise money for the church. I belonged to a wonderful church community that encouraged me to sing.

Al Jarreau

#11. Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles.

Shawn Martin

#12. I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.

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#13. It is mandatory from elementary school to attend public executions. Often classes would be cancelled so students could go.

Hyeonseo Lee

#14. A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.

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#15. I will suggest that the great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

Annie Besant

#16. As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.

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#17. Sometimes I ask lots of people the same question." His head hurt. "What do you do if you don't get the same answer?" "Think about it.

Anne Bishop

#18. Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of human nature. It's perhaps the underpinnings of religion.

Sylvia Earle

#19. The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

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#20. There's anything I learned from studying philosophy, it's that everything turns to shit - but

Kevin Hearne

#21. Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

Albert Collins

#22. The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography.

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#23. causing a refugee crisis rated at ten thousand katrinas. One

Kim Stanley Robinson

#24. As soon as I heard there were people in Germany who wanted to restore the old part of Dresden, I wanted to help. Even before the Nobel, I had started this group, the Friends of Dresden. The destruction of Dresden made a big impression on me when I was a child, and I wanted to do this.

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#25. In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.

Gunter Blobel