24 Quotes by Sidney Altman

At the MRC laboratory I started the work that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA subunit of that enzyme.

However, it was made clear to the first generation of Canadian-born children that the path to opportunity was through education.

The chemical details of catalysis by RNase P remain to be fully worked out although a rough picture of this reaction is now available.

I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.

All the people who do well work very hard. Nobody who has a record of achievement has been lazy about it.

By the time I reached high school my father’s grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.