There are over 50 brilliant scientists working at my lab, and being sensitive to their needs is among the top skill sets that scientists like me have to learn.
I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.
This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.
However, it required some years before the scientific community in general accepted that flexibility and disorder are very relevant molecular properties also in other systems.
We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.
The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.
Organizing one's life to respond to a threat one felt powerless about as a child can be a source of enormous inspiration.
After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.
A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.
The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
