A Quote by Joshua Lederberg

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

Joshua Lederberg

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Biochemistry By The Time Studying Textbooks Time

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Joshua Lederberg
American - Scientist
May 23, 1925 - February 2, 2008

I chose biochemistry as my major and graduated after 4 years with an Honours degree in Biochemistry. During that time, I had come to love biochemistry research, although I was just getting my feet wet in laboratory research.

Elizabeth Blackburn

I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13.

La'Porsha Renae

My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion.

Lee Ritenour

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

Francis Crick

I knew a lot about the Coen Brothers by the time I was 12 or 13.

Cristin Milioti

I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.

Randy Bachman

Quit while there is still time - at about 12 or 13 years of age!

Gilles Gratton

I was brought up on music hall, and at the same time, I was studying Greek at the age of 12.

Tony Harrison

If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

Thomas Szasz

The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

Ursula Goodenough

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, 'What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?' I get what you're saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Billie Eilish

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

Paul Simon

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

Charlie Brooker

At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children's book about a boy and a wolf cub, and there was a paragraph in that which was from the wolf's point of view.

Michelle Paver

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.