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Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.

~Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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To advance science is highly honourable, and I believe the institution of the Nobel Prizes has done much to raise the prestige of scientific discovery.

~Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally, the new immunology was born.

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The production of antibody is not the only, nor I believe the most important, manifestation of immunity, but for reasons both historical and of experimental convenience, antibody is likely to remain the touchstone of immunological theory.

~Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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Serum albumin is a well-defined protein, but no laboratory has yet attempted to ascertain its full chemical structure.

~Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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Human insulin differs from other mammalian types by having a different C-terminal amino acid on the B chain. The immunological difference between beef insulin and human insulin, which is presumably responsible for the antigenicity of the former in some human beings, is thus limited to very a small portion of the whole molecule.

~Frank Macfarlane Burnet

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Scientist

Born: September 3rd, 1899

Died: August 31st, 1985

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