I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

- James Black

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

- James Black

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation …

- James Black

I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

- James Black

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave musi…

- James Black

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydream…

- James Black

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tiss…

- James Black

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prot…

- James Black

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse…

- James Black