Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to natures most precious sec…

- Stanley B. Prusiner

In science, each new result, sometimes quite surprising, heralds a step forward and allows one to discard some hypotheses, even though one or two of …

- Stanley B. Prusiner

The Nobel Prizes are much more than awards to scholars; they are a celebration of civilization, of mankind, and of what makes humans unique - that is…

- Stanley B. Prusiner

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think…

- Stanley B. Prusiner

Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something tr…

- Stanley B. Prusiner

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses t…

- Stanley B. Prusiner

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

- Stanley B. Prusiner

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is dif…

- Stanley B. Prusiner