Jack W. Szostak quotes

Jack W. Szostak is a Canadian-American biologist and Nobel laureate, renowned for his pioneering research in genetics and molecular biology. His groundbreaking work includes contributions to the understanding of telomeres and the origins of life. He has significantly advanced our knowledge of how cells maintain genetic stability and how life may have arisen on Earth. Here are 6 of his quotes:

What do cells do when they see a broken piece of DNA? Cells don't like such breaks. They'll do pretty much anything they can to fix things up. If a chromosome is broken, the cells will repair the break using an intact chromosome.

Jack W. Szostak

I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.

Jack W. Szostak

I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.

Jack W. Szostak

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

Jack W. Szostak

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Jack W. Szostak