Top 21 Sidney Altman Quotes
#1. By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
Sidney Altman
#2. When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
Pat Conroy
#3. It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
Sidney Altman
#4. Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
Sidney Altman
#5. I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
Sidney Altman
#6. Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
Karl Popper
#7. The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
Sidney Altman
#8. Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
Sidney Altman
#9. I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
Sidney Altman
#10. I do think the most important thing we need in leadership in our country, not just in the presidency but in the United States Senate, are people that have a clear vision of what the role of government should be in our lives and what the role of America should be in the world.
Marco Rubio
#11. We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
Sidney Altman
#12. My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sidney Altman
#13. About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Sidney Altman
#14. We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
Sidney Altman
#15. I am not one of the "slower" talents, like Reason or Mathematics. I am Music. If I bless you singing, you can do so from your first attempt.
Mitch Albom
#16. I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
Sidney Altman
#17. I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
Brian K. Vaughan
#18. Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.
Sidney Altman
#19. Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
Sidney Altman
#20. The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
Sidney Altman
#21. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
Sidney Altman
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