My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 2005-2009, no. 29-33, Volume dedicated to our late member, George Emil Palade, the Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine