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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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"I don't consult polls to tell me what my principles are or what our policies should be."
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"That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle."
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"The first principle of time is that it must be converted into product."
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"In my speeches, I always condemned communism, national-socialism and fascism."
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"Principle' [Established Truth] means everywhere applicable; when there is nothing else, it is called Principle."
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"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle."
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"It is usually expensive and lonely to be principled."
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"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."
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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."
Music
"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."
Opportunity
"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."
Project
"We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever."
Home
"The outcome, the fourth in an issue of five boys born into a staunch Baptist home, meant that from the beginning I was taught to be respectful of others no less than myself, influencing ever since both my political and administrative attitudes."
Home
"My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives."
Love
"I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly."
Corporate
"I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated."
Summer
"I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion."
Progress
"During my six years with them Dr Garnet Davey (subsequently Research Director) constantly supported me and, I have no doubt, fought many battles on my behalf to keep the initially controversial programme going."
Doubt
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