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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"Find as much information about your subject as you can."
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"There are official searchers, inquisitors. I have seen them in the performance of their function: they always arrive extremely tired from their journeys; they speak of a broken stairway which almost killed them; they talk with the librarian of galleries and stairs; sometimes they pick up the nearest volume and leaf through it, looking for infamous words. Obviously, no one expects to discover anything."
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"I become kind of obsessive about research."
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"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."
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"I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it."
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"I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation."
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"I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research."
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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."
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"Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings."
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"Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves."
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"The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth."
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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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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"We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy."
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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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"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
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"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
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"By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college."
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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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"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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