By the time I reached high school my father’s grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college. Sidney Altman Read Quote
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sidney Altman Read Quote
Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government. Sidney Altman Read Quote
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages. Sidney Altman Read Quote
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power. Sidney Altman Read Quote
We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy. Sidney Altman Read Quote
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon. Sidney Altman Read Quote
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old. Sidney Altman Read Quote
The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth. Sidney Altman Read Quote
