Paul Nurse Quotes

• I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.

  Paul Nurse

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, American, Science, Scientific, Experiment

• I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

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  Topics in Decision, Work

  Tags in Excellent, Strong

• At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

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  Tags in Academic

• I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Strong

• I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Movie, Interest, Interesting

• I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

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• During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

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  Tags in Attention, Change

• I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

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  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Never, Interested

• A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Issue, Problem, Change

• I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.

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  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Force

• Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.

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  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Students, Science

• After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Language

• I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Science

• I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in Youngest

• My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.

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  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Focus

• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Mankind

• Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.

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  Topics in Health, Life

  Tags in World, Human Beings

• It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Time, Age And Aging

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

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  Topics in Education

  Tags in Career

• My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.

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Paul Nurse (25)

Birth:	25th January, 1949
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Geneticist

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