Susumu Quotes

#1. My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Susumu Tonegawa

#2. Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

Norman Finkelstein

#3. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.

Joseph Addison

#4. Humans are very imaginative animals.

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#5. The consequence of making it a business thing and making an artist the same as a Wall Street trader is that you do get a robot by the end of it. It becomes more robotic as opposed to being more soulful.

M.I.A.

#6. He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.

Charles Robert Maturin

#7. I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.

Amy Adams

#8. In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory.

Susumu Tonegawa

#9. I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

Mike Mills

#10. I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

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#11. The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

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#12. Although we often discussed the idea of research on the nature of antigen recognition by T cells in the laboratory in the late Seventies while I was still in Basel, the real work did not start until the early Eighties in my new laboratory at M.I.T.

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#13. Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

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#14. The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.

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#15. Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

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#16. I wish I could see a cherry blossom or a lotus flower. Where could they be?

Susumu Katsumata

#17. Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

Susumu Katsumata

#18. Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

Bobby Knight

#19. Like nightmares, dreams were insidious things, and didn't like being locked away.

Laini Taylor

#20. The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.

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#21. Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen.

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#22. When it comes to dress, we are supposedly free to wear whatever we want - but if this is the case, why do we wear such similar clothes? Why are we choosing to wear shoes that are almost perfectly designed to make walking as difficult as possible?

Caroline Criado-Perez

#23. Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

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#24. When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

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#25. It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

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#26. Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

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#27. We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.

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#28. I decided to pursue graduate study in molecular biology and was accepted by Professor Itaru Watanabe's laboratory at the Institute for Virus Research at the University of Kyoto, one of a few laboratories in Japan where U.S.-trained molecular biologists were actively engaged in research.

Susumu Tonegawa

#29. Nothing appears on them by chance or simply because it looks pretty.

Carina Axelsson

#30. Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little.

Susumu Katsumata

#31. There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.

Lene Marlin

#32. Vengeance, is good. You give it, you get it. It's all part of what makes us human. So thank god for vengeance. Otherwise, the human race might as well just roll over and let another species for a while. I think it will be the cats. Watch 'em. They're cooking up something.

Christopher Titus

#33. I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

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#34. In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.

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#35. My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

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#36. Now you should have no qualms about leaving that village. That place isn't fit for kappa anymore.

Susumu Katsumata

#37. After I arrived in Basel, I initially attempted to continue the project of my days in Dulbecco's laboratory, namely, the transcriptional control of the simian virus 40 genes.

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#38. At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.

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#39. I became fascinated by the then-blossoming science of molecular biology when, in my senior year, I happened to read the papers by Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod on the operon theory.

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