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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions. Christian de Duve Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I cannot look at a question and not try to find the answer, even if I don’t know it. Christian de Duve Read Quote
I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden. Christian de Duve Read Quote
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 Read Quote
