Schekman Randy Quotes & Sayings

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life. — Randy Schekman

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as ... haggis ... bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it. — Alexander McQueen

If had a penny for every strange look I've gotten from strangers on the street I'd have about 10 to 15 dollars, which is a lot when you're dealing with pennies. — Andy Samberg

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. — Randy Schekman

Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society. — Randy Schekman

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked. — Randy Schekman

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen. — Randy Schekman

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works. — Randy Schekman

Impossible? I don't believe in impossible, hard to get maybe, but that makes it all the more interesting. — Sue McGarvie

The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best. — Randy Schekman

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. — Randy Schekman

Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms. — Randy Schekman

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue. — Randy Schekman

To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in. — Adyashanti

It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research. — Randy Schekman

She was tired of being a symbol. Symbols were stagnant, frozen, representative, and spurring of action but never the action itself. — Elise Kova

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work. — Randy Schekman

The Law is the true embodiment of everything that's excellent; it has no kind of fault or flaw and I, my Lords, embody the Law. — W.S. Gilbert