Kornberg Arthur Quotes & Sayings

Nothing worthwhile is ever fun. — Arthur Kornberg

If people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy - do you think they'd bother to think hard about things, the way were doing now? I mean, we think about its everything, more or less - philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such t
hing as death, the complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world. — Haruki Murakami

The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered. — Arthur Kornberg

You got me. As soon as I saw your prowess with the floor buffer, I was yours. — Eileen Cook

No matter how counter-intuitive it may seem, basic research has proven over and over to be the lifeline of practical advances in medicine. — Arthur Kornberg

It is hard to make the boat go as fast as you want to. The enemy of course, is resistance of the water, as you have to displace the amount of water equal to the weight of the men and equipment, but that very water is what supports you and that very enemy is your friend. So is life: the very problems you must overcome also support you and make you stronger in overcoming them. — George Yeoman Pocock

Half of what we know is wrong, the purpose of science is to determine which half. — Arthur Kornberg

A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man. — Robert A. Heinlein

Without advances, medicine regresses and reverts to witchcraft. — Arthur Kornberg

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales. — Arthur Kornberg

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done. — Arthur Kornberg

Don't believe in role models, but if I do, then I'm mine — Common

Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again. — Mary Gaitskill

If your life is cloudy and you're far, far off course, you may have to go on faith for a while, but eventually you'll learn that every time you trust your internal navigation system, you end up closer to your right life. — Martha Beck

I didn't look at any of the newspapers, I look at the pictures sometimes, but apart from that I don't read them. — Tom Daley

Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content. — Arthur Kornberg

As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends. — Arthur Kornberg

I live in the garden; I just sleep in the house. — Jim Long

Thou shalt not believe something just because you can explain it. — Arthur Kornberg

What we call disorder or chaos might actually be order, if order is seen as a random distribution and not as a static, idealized condition. — William Lanouette

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long. — Arthur Kornberg

I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand. — Arthur Kornberg