Postdocs Quotes & Sayings

A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
[Baffled at a Bookcase (London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 15, 28 July 2011)] — Alan Bennett

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. — Paul Wolfowitz

We must win the war on poverty by enlisting the greatest weapon ever invented - free enterprise — Jack Kemp

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism. — Lionel Barber

Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards. — Blaise Pascal

I am very grateful for the dedicated work and intellectual contributions of generations of talented postdocs, students and research assistants without whom none of the work from my laboratory would have been possible. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

C'mon, Mee,' Henry said. 'You're among family.' 'Totally,' Kim said. — Gayle Forman