Top 33 Susumu Tonegawa Quotes
#1. Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.
William Hazlitt
#2. The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
Susumu Tonegawa
#4. 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
#5. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#6. My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.
Susumu Tonegawa
#7. Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
Raymond Cruz
#8. You just told those people that I'm a sexual deviant," he said through clenched teeth. "And apparently, one with the intelligence of a ten-year-old. Those stories will be on the Internet by this afternoon.
Julie James
#9. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#10. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#11. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#12. The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
Susumu Tonegawa
#13. He meant friends owe [10] something good to their friends, never something bad.
Plato
#14. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#15. All our summers are ruined because of that little whore.
Evelyn Smith
#16. UNDERTAKER!" the head boomed. "BOY, DO I HAVE A JOB FOR YOU!
Tom Upton
#17. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#18. As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Charles De Lint
#19. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#20. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#21. 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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#22. In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.
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#23. I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.
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#24. Immunologists agreed that an individual vertebrate synthesizes many millions of structurally different forms of antibody molecules even before it encounters an antigen.
Susumu Tonegawa
#25. The demands of Sex Privatization contradict the demands of the Beauty Ideal, causing the severe feminine neurosis about personal appearance.
Shulamith Firestone
#26. 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
#27. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
Pearl S. Buck
#28. We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
Susumu Tonegawa
#29. Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
Susumu Tonegawa
#30. It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.
Susumu Tonegawa
#31. If there is something to win and nothing to lose from asking a question then ask whatever it takes
W. Clement Stone
#32. 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.
Susumu Tonegawa
#33. Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.
Susumu Tonegawa
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