22 Quotes by Lennart Nilsson

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    We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

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    You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

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    For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

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    I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

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    So, maybe we can do something in the future, but you know, I have to do one thing and concentrate on it. But this is a dream I have.

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    Yes, you know, I decided, I think it was '58, to go to the Karolinska Institute - in the medical school here. And I had decided it, me and my family.

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    And then we are going to start a new television film about the miracle of love - the chemistry of love. Everything before the kiss.

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    This is a wide angle endoscope - about 100 degrees - a new way which gives an extremely sharp image. This is what I call a revolution in endoscopy.

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    In the spring of '65, Life Magazine published a story about human reproduction - a cover and sixteen pages. I worked for twelve years on this story.

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