Aaron Klug quotes

Aaron Klug was a British chemist and biophysicist, renowned for his work in structural biology and electron microscopy. His groundbreaking research led to the development of crystallographic electron microscopy for studying large biological molecules. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to science. Here are 7 of his quotes:

I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes. (Aaron Klug)

People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do very useful work.

Aaron Klug

Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.

Aaron Klug

The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Aaron Klug

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

Aaron Klug

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

Aaron Klug

Aaron Klug

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Occupation: British Chemist
Born: August 11, 1926
Died: November 20, 2018
Quotes count: 7
Wikipedia: Aaron Klug

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