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"In teaching, I wanted to offer a general pharmacology course based on chemical principles, biochemical classification and mathematical modelling. In the event I achieved neither of my ambitions."
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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."
"The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
"After establishing anything as the absolute truth, its' conclusion is reached. It doesn't have to be established as the truth again. What is proven as the eternal established truth for past, present and future is known as the Principle [Siddhant]."
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"I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated."
"Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project."
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"The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London."
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"Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years."
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