In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.'
From Gunter Blobel
I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.
As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell.
After the near-total destruction of Dresden in the Allied fire-bombing of February 1945, few people believed that its beauty would ever return. Dresden's slow but steady comeback was thus met with great relief.
It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.
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