94 Quotes About British-scientist

  • Author Paul Nurse
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    My time as an undergraduate at Birmingham was extremely stimulating both as a biologist and also for my more general intellectual development.

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  • Author Paul Nurse
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    At the end of the 1980s as a complete surprise my old Edinburgh friend, Ed Southern offered me the Chair of Microbiology at the University of Oxford.

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  • Author Paul Nurse
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    This meant that when I left school I had to work as a technician in a microbiological laboratory associated with the local Guinness brewery.

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  • Author Paul Nurse
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    It was now 1980 and Anne and myself had two little children Sarah and Emily, and we were wondering whether to stay permanently in Edinburgh.

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  • Author Paul Nurse
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    In fact I am very much an experimentalist and an empiricist, so it would have been a major mistake for me to have abandoned this type of work.

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  • Author Warren De la Rue
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    By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

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