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Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.
Stanley B. Prusiner / Researcher
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Figures
Goal
Therapy
Diseases
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It is crucial for scientists to be willing to be wrong; otherwise, you might not do the most important experiments, or you may ignore your most important findings.
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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 and how they react.
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Believe
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Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.
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Constant
Data
Independent
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Verification
Vindicated
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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 these might have been highly favored.
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Steps
Surprising
Two
Discard
Favored
Hypotheses
Step Forward
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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 their intellect from which springs creativity.
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Awards
Celebration
Creativity
Humans
Intellect
Mankind
Nobel
Spring
Unique
Springs
Prizes
Scholars
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Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.
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Architecture
Courses
Philosophy
Professors
Russian History
Besides
Extraordinarily
Numerous
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Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to natures most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
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Creative
Secret
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Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature's most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.
Stanley B. Prusiner / Researcher
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Answers
Colleagues
Creative
Passionate
Privilege
Scientist
Special
Warm
Brings
Valued
Friendships
Precious
Quest
Secrets
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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 different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.
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Science
Brain
Different
Exciting
Human Brain
Neuroscience
Unique
Most
Because
He
Every
Defines
Each
Human
Far
He Or She
Makes
Object
She
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During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of Surgery with Sidney Wolfson. I quickly became fascinated by the project and continued working on it throughout my senior year.
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Department
Fascinated
Senior
Senior Year
Summer
Surgery
Junior
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While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the best science often emerges from situations where results carefully obtained do not fit within the accepted paradigms.
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Fit
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Paradigm
Scientific Knowledge
Skeptical
Carefully
Emerges
Obtained
Realm
Scientific
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From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.
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Explanation
Focused
Fulfilling
Point Of View
Unknown
Scientists
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My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.
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Critical
Describing
Developing
Discovery
Immense
Manuscripts
Purifying
Remains
Approaches
Documenting
Scientific
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People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that only a few scientists are granted the great fortune to pursue topics that are so new and different that only a small number of people can grasp the meaning of such discoveries initially.
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Fortune
Granted
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Topics
Respond
Discoveries
Frequently
Initially
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