Students and postdoctoral fellows largely depend on the support of the public sector to finance the training and research that will make them world-renowned scientists. Carol W. Greider Read Quote
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut. Carol W. Greider Read Quote
In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure. Carol W. Greider Read Quote
It takes years to realize the multiple benefits of science; without adequate, sustained funding for research, the careers of many bright, young scientists may come to a screeching halt. Carol W. Greider Read Quote
Science can promote an understanding between people at a really fundamental level. Carol W. Greider Read Quote
