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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
~ Sidney Altman
About
Book
Elegance
Elements
First
First Time
Given
Later
Periodic
Power
Saw
Scientific
Scientific Theory
Seven
Table
Theory
Time
Years
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By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college.
~ Sidney Altman
Able
Adequately
Any
By The Time
Choose
College
Comfortable
Father
Grocery
Grocery Store
Had
High
High School
Life
Made
Our
Practical
Pursue
Reached
School
Store
Subjects
Time
Wanted
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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
~ Sidney Altman
Colorado
Columbia
Decided
Eight
Graduate
Graduate Student
Having
Later
Left
Months
Physics
Program
Student
Studying
Summer
Working
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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
~ Sidney Altman
Canada
Family
Immediate
Land
Opportunity
Our
Relatives
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Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis.
~ Sidney Altman
Furthermore
Groups
Neither
Our
Out
Research
Search
Set
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I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
~ Sidney Altman
Columbia
Columbia University
Continue
Eighteen
Graduate
Graduate Student
Laboratory
Months
Opportunity
Physics
Should
Spent
Student
University
Waiting
Wondering
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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
~ Sidney Altman
Born
I Was Born
Immigrants
Montreal
Poor
Second
Son
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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
~ Sidney Altman
Afforded
Been
Follow
Generous
Government
Indeed
Inspirations
Land
Nature
Opportunity
Our
Own
Privileged
Relative
Study
Study Nature
Thoughts
Time
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It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments.
~ Sidney Altman
Could
Even
Hard
Hard Work
Increment
Learned
Only
Rewards
Small
Stable
Surroundings
Them
Work
Yield
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My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
~ Sidney Altman
Events
Institute
Intention
Led
Massachusetts
Me
Physics
Series
Study
Technology
Unexpected
University
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
~ Sidney Altman
Constructed
Few
Frequent
General
Hypothesis
Nevertheless
Occurrence
Phenomenon
Science
Specific
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The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
~ Sidney Altman
Associated
Bomb
Could
Even
Fail
General
Importance
Impress
Mystique
Old
Played
Role
Scientists
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The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth.
~ Sidney Altman
Earth
Hypothetical
Life
Origin
Referred
Stage
World
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We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
~ Sidney Altman
Advantages
Always
Enjoy
Every
Had
Hope
Individual
Intellectual
Least
Material
Privileges
Someday
United
Will
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We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.
~ Sidney Altman
Enjoy
Extraordinary
Fortunate
Here
Manner
Recognized
Very
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