23 Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

  • Author Susumu Tonegawa
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    In 1981, after ten years in Basel, I returned to the United States to continue my research on the immune system at the Center for Cancer Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where Director Salvador E. Luria provided me with an excellent laboratory.

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  • Author Susumu Tonegawa
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    Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

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  • Author Susumu Tonegawa
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    When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

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  • Author Susumu Tonegawa
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    The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.

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