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Top 20 Peter Agre Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Agre Quote: “In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.”

1. “In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.”

Peter Agre Quote: “My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.”

2. “My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.”

3. “Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.”

4. “Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.”

Peter Agre Quote: “We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.”

5. “We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child’s first interest was sparked by a teacher.”

6. “Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child’s first interest was sparked by a teacher.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn’t just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.”

7. “Every cell in our body is primarily water. But the water doesn’t just sit in the cell, it moves through it in a very organized way. The process occurs rapidly in tissues that have these aquaporins or water channels.”

Peter Agre Quote: “The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.”

8. “The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.”

Peter Agre Quote: “My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom’s cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.”

9. “My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom’s cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.”

Peter Agre Quote: “So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don’t blab unnecessarily.”

10. “So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don’t blab unnecessarily.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.”

11. “Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.”

12. “Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.”

Peter Agre Quote: “The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.”

13. “The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.”

14. “Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.”

15. “Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret.”

Peter Agre Quote: “I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father’s people are buried there.”

16. “I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father’s people are buried there.”

Peter Agre Quote: “It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.”

17. “It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.”

18. “Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.”

Peter Agre Quote: “One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.”

19. “One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way.”

Peter Agre Quote: “Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.”

20. “Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.”

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