Author: Jacques Dubochet

Quotes

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

- Jacques Dubochet

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

Chemistry is the science of atoms. Elaborating on Democritus' idea, chemists learn how atoms stick or don't stick together, thus forming molecules.

- Jacques Dubochet

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.

- Jacques Dubochet

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

- Jacques Dubochet

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