I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
Natural selection is not the wind which propels the vessel, but the rudder which, by friction, now on this side and now on that, shapes the course.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
When we depress, we believe we are the victims of a feeling over which we have no control.
We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It happened to us; we are its victim, and we have no control over it.
To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no control over it.
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
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.
In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.
