Peter Agre's Quotes

Born: 1949-01-30
Profession: Scientist
Nation: American
Biography of Peter Agre
I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
Tags: Father, Four, MinnesotaJohns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
Tags: Future, Life, WifeOften times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Tags: Often, School, TimesSo, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
Tags: Advice, Work, YoungWe always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Tags: After, DadDad 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.
Tags: Dad, Education, SocietyEvery 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.
Tags: Body, Process, WaterFollowing 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.
Tags: School, Teacher, YoungIn 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement.
Tags: Act, Half, UnitedIt 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.
Tags: Honor, Remarkable, ScienceMother 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.
Tags: Age, Depression, MotherMy 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.
Tags: Mom, Wonderful, WorkingMy 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.
Tags: Goal, Problems, TrainingNow 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.
Tags: Medical, School, WorkThe Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
Tags: Energy, Enthusiasm, YoungThe 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.
Tags: Career, Health, Problems