It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
Paul NurseI felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
Paul NurseI was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.
Paul NurseI think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.
Paul Nurse