John Gurdon I get into lab early and leave a bit early, too. So I like to have an hour or two before everybody comes in. – John Gurdon Bit Quotes Hour Quotes Lab Quotes Leave Quotes As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis. As with most animal eggs, the early events of amphibian development are largely independent of the environment, and the processes leading to cell differentiation must involve a redistribution and interaction of constituents already present in the fertilized egg.
Delilah It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, ‘Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.’ And I’m like, ‘I’ve talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!’ – Delilah
DietJason Segel I went on a Hot Pocket diet where I ate two Hot Pockets every four hours. I only had the pepperoni pizza flavour. I didn’t go anywhere near the cheeseburger macaroni. – Jason Segel
Pete Conrad The flight was extremely normal… for the first 36 seconds then after that got very interesting. – Pete Conrad
Chris Hadfield We have never lost a crew member on the space station, but of course, the Columbia accident. I was – I’d already been an astronaut for a decade when the crew of Columbia was killed. And I went through test pilot school. Rick Husband and I were out at Edwards at test pilot school together. He was the commander of Columbia. – Chris Hadfield
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