29 Quotes by Tim Hunt

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    I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for.

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    Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

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    At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

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    I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.

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    I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

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    I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

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    I'm impressed by the economic development of Korea. And women scientists played, without doubt, an important role in it.

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    If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.

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    In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.

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