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Life's a hobby.

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To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

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All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

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My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

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By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

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I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

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When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

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If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

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I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: May 23rd, 1925

Died: February 2nd, 2008

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