41 Quotes by Peter Agre

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.

Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.