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"Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession."
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"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father used to run auctions. He's now a singer in the Canary Islands."
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"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"The most important influence in my childhood was my father."
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"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home."
Home
"It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure."
Knowledge
"Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession."
Father
"Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore (a year older than me), I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method."
Science
"I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge."
Knowledge
"Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer."
Mother
"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."
Beauty
"It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him."
Life
"I believe that we have been doing this not primarily to achieve riches or even honour, but rather because we were interested in the work, enjoyed doing it and felt very strongly that it was worthwhile."
Work
"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in."
Art
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