Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to th ...
View quoteHuman curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all ...
View quoteThe work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and lo ...
View quoteThe philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bri ...
View quoteIn the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves ...
View quoteMy father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of re ...
View quoteHowever, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been ac ...
View quoteThis work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted ...
View quotePeople who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes ...
View quoteOne cannot plan for the unexpected.
View quoteI like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.
View quoteThis field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks t ...
View quoteI like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes, but increasing responsibil ...
View quoteI did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and be ...
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