James Black Quotes

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

I fell in love with the science at Merck.

I really was inspired by the possibility of more directly being involved in the development of drugs myself.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

I'd like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which drug disentangles the aggregates that make a brain senile. Many of us are interested in such things.

We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.

To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.

Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.

I took pre-med courses in college.

I've started to think it must just be chemistry, in which case we're looking for the Shift and we haven't found it yet.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

It's all about chemistry. Talent alone won't get it done.

I will bring lots of studies back with me so I can work on some big things at home.