James Black Quotes

• I learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

  James Black

  Dream, Science, Discipline

  "Sir James Black obituary" by Pearce Wright, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2010.

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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Optimistic, Science, Vision

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• 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

  Home, Views, Perspective

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• 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

  Science, Drug, Technique

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• I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

  James Black

  Science, Wish, Biographies

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• Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

  James Black

  Creativity, Independent, Science

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• 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

  Father, Singing, His Love

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• 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

  School, Math, Years

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• 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

  Passion, Progress, Tissues

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• 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

  Summer, Balls, Students

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