Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was spark…

- Peter Agre

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

- Peter Agre

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.

- Peter Agre

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory t…

- Peter Agre

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.

- Peter Agre

Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn't just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occur…

- Peter Agre

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosev…

- Peter Agre

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundam…

- Peter Agre

The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher. Lack of s…

- Peter Agre