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.
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked. - Randy Schekman
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
- Randy Schekman
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity. - Randy Schekman
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. - Randy Schekman
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.
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
When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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 idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life. - Randy Schekman
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
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
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.
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 sc… - Randy Schekman
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 sc…
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… - 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…
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