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"Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science."
Science
"Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life."
Health
"My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university."
Aspiration
"Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem."
Experience
"I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology."
Work
"At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys."
Age
"My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size."
Trying
"I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me."
Time
"It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways."
Knowledge
"My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur."
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"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."
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Personal Development
"Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age."
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Personal Development
"Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."
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"The golden age is before us, not behind us."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Not even old age knows how to love death."
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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."
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"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."
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"I am older than your age and younger than your body."
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