Benacerraf Quotes & Sayings

As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms. — Baruj Benacerraf

Paul Benacerraf, 'What Numbers Could Not Be,' Philosophical Review (1965). — Roger Scruton

I am going to fuck you seven ways til Sunday and you're going to go along for the ride. — Nikita King

It only shows, said Aunt Sadie, that nothing really matters the least bit, so why make these fearful efforts to keep alive?
Oh, but it's the efforts that one enjoys so much, said Davey... — Nancy Mitford

My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena. — Baruj Benacerraf

Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all. — Jay Leno

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away. — Chuck Palahniuk

The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species. — Baruj Benacerraf

You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything. — Edith Hahn Beer

Daddy worked for God, but asked for no pay. For he believed that God provides a way. — Dolly Parton

I am a monster. I am the Son of Sam. I love to hunt. — David Berkowitz

Sometimes a perceived obstacle is just an opportunity in disguise. — Michael Hyatt

While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented. — Baruj Benacerraf

My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life. — Baruj Benacerraf

The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes. — Baruj Benacerraf

sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do. — Charles Bukowski

Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena. — Baruj Benacerraf

Love asks us to enjoy our life
For nothing good can come of death.
Who is alive? I ask.
Those who are born of love.
Seek us in love itself,
Seek love in us ourselves.
Sometimes I venerate love,
Sometimes it venerates me. — Rumi

In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows. — Baruj Benacerraf