Severo Ochoa Quotes

#1. Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my great predecessor Santiago Ramon y Cajal.

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#2. I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

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#3. I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

Patti LuPone

#4. The wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#5. The nucleic acids have considerable biological importance because of their role in cell growth and in the transmission of hereditary characters.

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#6. It never seemed fair that just when you're old enough to do anything you want, you can't. You have to start working, so there's no time. And if there is time, you're not working, so there's no money.

Terri Farley

#7. When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive
to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

Marcus Aurelius

#8. Among the great names that adorn the roll of Nobel prize-winners in Medicine is that of Otto Meyerhof, my admired teacher and friend, to whose inspiration, guidance and encouragement I owe so very much.

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#9. Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode rays is clearly presupposed to be necessary ... and this assumption is untenable.

Arthur Schuster