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"I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it."
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."

"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

"Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities."

"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."

"I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills."

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"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes."
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"Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order."

"As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way."

"And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance."

"People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms."

"At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends."

"My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World."

"My education began in the public schools of Wilmington. During most of these years, from about age 10, I also worked at some job or other after school, on weekends, and in the summer months."

"So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students."
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