“With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.” FactsLostDiscoveryForgottenExcitement Author:Paul Berg
“That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.” TechnologyMajorsToolsFunctionBasesStructurePrizeChemistryGenesReceivingProvidingDnaNobelEmergenceNobel PrizeAnalyzingStructure And Function Author:Paul Berg
“Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.” TechnologySeriousDrugDiseaseTherapyTreatmentEmbargo Author:Paul Berg
“Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.” ImportantRealizingSolutionsInstinctCuriosityContributionLooking BackNurturingImportant ContributionsAerospace Author:Paul Berg
“But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.” WarFeltEffortNavyFlyersEnlisted Author:Paul Berg
“But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.” ProcessInterestingEventsDesignPerspectivePlantScalesChemicalsProspects Author:Paul Berg
“By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.” MadeBecomingBiologyTransitionGenesProteinBiochemistryMolecular Biology Author:Paul Berg
“Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.” HumansIdeasValuesTechnologyNovelImpactBiologyStrainHuman ValuesScience And Society Author:Paul Berg
“Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of the concerns that were rampant.” HumansKindEnvironmentEvolutionCreatingConcernPlagueHuman Evolution Author:Paul Berg
“Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.” HumansTodayResearchMedicalCellsTherapyStemStem CellEmbryonic Stem Cells Author:Paul Berg
“Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.” MovingProcessNaturalEffectsConcernProfoundSpeciesBarriersDnaBreedingBreach Author:Paul Berg
