Words matter. These are the best Peter Agre Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don’t blab unnecessarily.
In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.
Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn’t just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
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.
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
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.
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.
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father’s people are buried there.
Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.
Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training.
Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They’re in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They’re better educated than other parts of the country.
For me, the discovery of aquaporins was like a gift after 25 years in basic science.
Water is commonly regarded as the ‘solvent of life,’ since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells.
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.
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.
To my knowledge, there’s never been a scientist in the U.S. Senate.
