Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Hershey

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Alfred Hershey.

Last updated on November 6, 2024.

Alfred Day Hershey was an American Nobel Prize–winning bacteriologist and geneticist.

American - Scientist | December 4, 1908 - May 22, 1997

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Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Alfred Hershey

Of course there are depressing periods when nothing appears to be happening. But whenever anything was happening, and even when nothing was happening, it was fun just to do phage experiments.

Alfred Hershey

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.

Alfred Hershey

When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the structure of DNA molecules, something which I would never have dreamed of doing before I started.

Alfred Hershey

I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Alfred Hershey

Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.

Alfred Hershey

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Alfred Hershey

Joseph Mandell and I began by attempting to make chromatography of DNA work.

Alfred Hershey

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget.

Alfred Hershey

Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

Alfred Hershey

Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Alfred Hershey

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred Hershey

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