Daniel Nathans Quotes

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

people

Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

associates life order science

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

strength frailty

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

opportunity