Alfred Hershey Quotes & Sayings

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments. — Alfred Hershey

Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work. — Alfred Hershey

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started. — Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget. — Alfred Hershey

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began. — Alfred Hershey

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well. — Alfred Hershey

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. — Alfred Hershey