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We are sick because our cells are sick.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Sick
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When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Disappear
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In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Medicine
Spite
Advances
Deathly
Epidemic
Menacing
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I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Geography
Lectures
Sweden
Followed
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Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Conditions
Destitute
Witness
Vast
Survive
To Survive
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We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Scientific
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It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Exaggeration
Not Afraid
Would Be
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It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Believer
Exaggeration
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Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Cities
Waste
Accumulate
Increasingly
Lawless
Overcrowded
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We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Birth
Birth Control
Population
Established
Practical
Reduce
Scientifically
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Ribosomes contain RNA, messenger RNA provides the information, transfer RNAs brings the amino acids; so the protein-making machinery is an RNA machinery, completely.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Information
Machinery
Amino
Brings
Contain
Messenger
Provides
Transfer
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When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Explorers
Infancy
Pioneering
Albert
Electron
Followed
Join
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I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Mechanism
Scientific Research
Vocation
Assigned
Promptly
Scientific
Task
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Life is either a reproducible, almost commonplace manifestation of matter, given certain conditions, or a miracle. Too many steps are involved to allow for something in between.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Matter
Miracle
Steps
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Speaking as a biologist, I think women are less aggressive than men, and they play a larger role in the early education of the young and helping them overcome their genetic heirloom.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Aggressive
Biologist
Helping
Education Men Women
Women Are
Overcome
Education Women Men
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Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Discovery
Cell
Fruitful
Investigations
Led
Received
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My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Ancient
Branches
According
Attended
Centered
Literary
Humanities
Strongly
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The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Advantage
Analytical
Applicable
Considerable
Relatively
Quantitative
Resolving
Widely
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I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Good Fortune
Modest
Revolutionary
Witness
Life Time Good
Advances
Participant
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I knew the lysosomes and peroxisomes because I had discovered them; I knew the mitochondria because I was interested in them. I knew the membrane system because my friend, George Palade, had worked on that.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Interested
Friend
Discovered
George
My Friend
System
Worked
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What I was concerned with was life: what are the major features that are common to all living organisms that subtly define life. So I looked at the whole problem as a chemist, as a biochemist, and as a molecular biologist.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Biologist
Chemist
Features
Living Organisms
Organisms
Define
Molecular
Subtly
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The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Broke
Laboratory
Sweden
Unforgettable
Hugo
Returned
Skies
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The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Certain
Conditions
Existence
Particles
Possibility
Accidentally
Considered
Clues
Injure
Result
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The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Deteriorating
Exhaustion
Pollution
Species
Threatened
Balances
Impoverished
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Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Belgium
Dutch
England
First World War
Roots
Taught
German
Benefit
Languages
Classical
French
Cosmopolitan
First World
Partly
World War
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Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Concepts
Determination
Former
Latter
Operations
Separating
Apart
Appear
Molecular
Worlds
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I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Genes
Human Nature
Inherent
Myth
Original Sin
Propose
Scripture
Selfishness
Sin
Account
Interpret
Invented
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If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Ethical
Hunters
Population
Sick
Habitable
Herd
Inhabitants
Limit
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Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Catholic
Circumstances
European Countries
Scientist
Valuable
Fairly
Asset
Languages
Due
Entered
European
Fluently
Spoke
Subsequent
Travelled
Valuable Asset
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What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Natural Resources
Sacrifice
Sake
Traits
Useful
Genetic
Immediately
Let Us
Preserve
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Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the 'man in white' dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Science
Care
Chosen
Form
Laboratory
Lurking
Medicine
Physiology
Solace
White
Although
Attracted
Corner
Student
Humanities
Seduced
Unpaid
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My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Belgium
Extraction
Harbour
Refuge
Cosmopolitan
Returned
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If you equate the probability of the birth of a bacteria cell to chance assembly of its atoms, eternity will not suffice to produce one Faced with the enormous sum of lucky draws behind the success of the evolutionary game, one may legitimately wonder to what extent this success is actually written into the fabric of the universe.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Atoms
Cells
Games
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The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction.
Christian De Duve / Researcher
Change
Success
Children
Climate
Climate Change
Cost
Destruction
Energy
Exhaustion
Extinction
Habitat
Humankind
Left
Natural
Natural Resources
Pollution
Resources
Will
Success Change Your
Nothing
Same
Continue
Crises
Direction
Exhaust
Frightful
Headed
Leading
Some
Same Direction
Success Is
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