17 Quotes by Paul Greengard

I have a lot of confidence through my accomplishments. I'm always trying to prove I'm not the worthless child they say I was.

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.

My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

The fact is all of the most highly successful scientists I know work practically all the time.

You should only go into science if you really have a yearning to make scientific discoveries.

Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.