Peter Agre Quotes

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

Education, Society, Dad

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

Through, Body, Water

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

Teacher, School, Through

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.
Peter Agre

Father, Four, Minnesota

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

Act, United, Half

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
Peter Agre

Science, Honor, Remarkable

Johns Hopkins introduced me to two defining events in my life: commitment to biomedical research and meeting my future wife, Mary.
Peter Agre

Life, Future, Wife

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

Age, Mother, Depression

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

Mom, Working, Wonderful

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

Goal, Training, Problems

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.
Peter Agre

Work, Medical, School

Often times the public school teachers are ridiculed or they are made to feel inferior but this is really undeserved.
Peter Agre

School, Made, Often

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

Secret, Studies, Keeping

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.
Peter Agre

Work, Young, Advice

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
Peter Agre

Young, Energy, Enthusiasm

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places; I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems.
Peter Agre

Health, Long, Career

Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.
Peter Agre

Through, Made, Until

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

Christmas, Dad, After

Well, all life forms are dependent upon water.
Peter Agre

Life, Water, Dependent

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

Good, Country, Ways

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: January 30, 1949

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