Research Background Quotes

I can't rightly say where deciding to write about the American Revolution came from; I had bits and pieces of information about the war and about the country at that time that I'd collected over the years and, of course, I'm comfortable in the woods, so, finally, it just all feel into place.

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career.

There were 900 books on Washington when I began writing on him.

I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.

Being a biochemist, I did a lot of tissue-culture research prior to working at NASA and when I first started working there.

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

I decided to take two years between finishing undergraduate and beginning medical school to devote fully to medical research. I knew that I wanted to go to medical school during undergraduate, but I was also eager to get a significant amount of research experience.

My father, Kaneki, was a gifted research director of a chemical company, and his profession strongly influenced the path of my life.

I contemplated a career at NIH at one point. I have a neuroscience background.

In terms of the Eastern Europe stories, my family is originally from there; even as a kid, it was the Russian writers I loved most, and I've spent a substantial amount of time there myself, traveling and on research grants.

My introduction to cell cycle control was provided by a clear, scholarly and beautiful seminar given by John Gerhart one afternoon in the summer of 1979.

My background is in theoretical physics, and it's something very close to my heart.

I didn't always have research jobs.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.