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Top 25 Paul Nurse Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Nurse Quote: “Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.”

1. “Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.”

2. “Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.”

3. “Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.”

4. “It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.”

5. “I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.”

6. “I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “As Sydney Brenner observed, ‘Mathematics is the art of the perfect. Physics is the art of the optimal. Biology, because of evolution, is the art of the satisfactory.”

7. “As Sydney Brenner observed, ‘Mathematics is the art of the perfect. Physics is the art of the optimal. Biology, because of evolution, is the art of the satisfactory.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.”

8. “This possibility bothered me as I thought it was not advisable to remain in one academic environment, and the long dark winters in Edinburgh could be rather dismal.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

9. “My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.”

10. “At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.”

11. “I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.”

12. “I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”

13. “I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”

14. “I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”

15. “Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.”

16. “During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.”

17. “My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.”

18. “My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.”

19. “This time at Birmingham turned me into a general biologist, and ever since then I have always tried to take a biological approach to any research project that I have undertaken.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.”

20. “I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.”

21. “After an extensive interview he arranged for my weaknesses in foreign languages to be over-looked and so I started a Biology degree at Birmingham in 1967.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.”

22. “I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.”

23. “It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “The life forms that survive natural selection persist because they work, not necessarily because they do things in the most efficient or straightforward way possible.”

24. “The life forms that survive natural selection persist because they work, not necessarily because they do things in the most efficient or straightforward way possible.”

Paul Nurse Quote: “This is one of the big discoveries of twenty-first century genetics: our genomes, each three billion DNA ‘letters’ long, are very similar, across genders, ethnicities, religions and social classes. This is an important equalizing fact that societies across the world should appreciate.”

25. “This is one of the big discoveries of twenty-first century genetics: our genomes, each three billion DNA ‘letters’ long, are very similar, across genders, ethnicities, religions and social classes. This is an important equalizing fact that societies across the world should appreciate.”

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