As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.
Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.
Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still freeand we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.
My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.
When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
