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The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm  (Peter Agre Quotes) While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one’s family environment, depending on what stage of one’s life and career a scientist is at.  (Peter Agre Quotes) Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child’s first interest was sparked by a teacher.  (Peter Agre Quotes) Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate. Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child’s first interest was sparked by a teacher.  (Peter Agre Quotes) In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.  (Peter Agre Quotes) The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.  (Peter Agre Quotes) My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life.  (Peter Agre Quotes) Written in 1895, Alfred Nobel’s will endowed prizes for scientific research in chemistry, physics, and medicine. At that time, these fields were narrowly defined, and researchers were often classically trained in only one discipline. In the late 19th century, knowledge of science was not a requisite for success in other walks of life.  (Peter Agre Quotes) Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn’t yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.  (Peter Agre Quotes) The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.  (Peter Agre Quotes) My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom’s cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.  (Peter Agre Quotes) 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.  (Peter Agre Quotes) There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn’t balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can’t deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it’s not politically conservative or liberal.  (Peter Agre Quotes) We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible  (Peter Agre Quotes) I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father’s people are buried there  (Peter Agre Quotes) The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems  (Peter Agre Quotes) Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary  (Peter Agre Quotes) It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science  (Peter Agre Quotes) In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement  (Peter Agre Quotes) My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom’s cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop  (Peter Agre Quotes) Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt  (Peter Agre Quotes) While the lab plays an enormous role, research is also influenced by inner peace of mind and one’s family environment, depending on what stage of one’s life and career a scientist is at  (Peter Agre Quotes) Well, all life forms are dependent upon water  (Peter Agre Quotes) Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret  (Peter Agre Quotes) My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary  (Peter Agre Quotes) Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child’s first interest was sparked by a teacher  (Peter Agre Quotes) One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way  (Peter Agre Quotes) Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid  (Peter Agre Quotes) So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don’t blab unnecessarily  (Peter Agre Quotes) Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved  (Peter Agre Quotes)
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