Weizmann Institute Quotes

#1. At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Ada Yonath

#2. The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was quite independent. I did what I wanted.

Ada Yonath

#3. Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

Zubin Mehta

#4. I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#5. Food is intensely pleasurable, and people are afraid that if they change the way they eat, they'll stop having pleasure.

John Mackey

#6. At every major step, physics has required, and frequently stimulated, the introduction of new mathematical tools and concepts. Our present understanding of the laws of physics, with their extreme precision and universality, is only possible in mathematical terms.

Michael Atiyeh

#7. I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way - I actually took advantage of research done before me at the Weizmann, the same institute I am now - how to preserve their activity and their integrity while they crystallized.

Ada Yonath

#8. Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#9. Absolute prediction is completion ... is death!

Frank Herbert