Top 7 James Black Quotes (2025 Update)

James Black Quote: “I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.”

1. “I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.”

2. “My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.”

— James Black

3. “I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.”

— James Black

4. “Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.”

— James Black

5. “I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.”

— James Black

6. “The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.”

— James Black

7. “We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.”

— James Black

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