21 Peter Agre Quotes for You to Enjoy

Peter Agre

American Scientist

Born: Jan 30, 1949

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Now in the 21st century, the boundaries separating chemistry, physics, and medicine have become blurred, and as happened during the Renaissance, scientists are following their curiosities even when they run beyond the formal limits of their training. Peter Agre

Following 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. Peter Agre

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My 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. Peter Agre

Water is commonly regarded as the 'solvent of life,' since our bodies are 70% water. All other vertebrates, invertebrates, microbes, and plants are also primarily water. The organization of water within biological compartments is fundamental to life, and the aquaporins serve as the plumbing systems for cells. Peter Agre

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. Peter Agre

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible. Peter Agre

Christmas Bible Dinner Had Read Always Norwegian After Which Dad

My 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. Peter Agre

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Our lab had always refrained from keeping our studies secret. Peter Agre

Secret Our Had Studies Always Lab Keeping

Every 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. Peter Agre

Water Sit Every Channels Our Way Rapidly Through Primarily Occurs Very Cell Just Moves Process Body Organized

Dad 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. Peter Agre

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Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country. Peter Agre

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Mother 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. Peter Agre

Depression Age Mother Lost Farm Herself Maid Had Support She Because Place Grandfather Worked Her Assistant

One of my motivations to become a blood specialist was to study malaria in red blood cells. But in science, you discover something and you want to go this way, but your work goes that way. Peter Agre

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My wife and I have four children, and none of them are in lab science, so clearly I returned home at night and presented a fairly unattractive example of a scientific life. Peter Agre

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There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal. Peter Agre

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I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs. Peter Agre

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Natural selection is not an inflammatory phrase; evolution is. Peter Agre

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