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Sidney Altman

"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

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"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."

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"We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages."
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"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."
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"Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics."
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"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
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"Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government."
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"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
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"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
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"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power."
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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