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Sidney Altman

"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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"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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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

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"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."

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"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."

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"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."

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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."

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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon."
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
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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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"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 mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
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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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"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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"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
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