#ere

Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#ensemble #going #hall #happening #home

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything. ↗

— Rudolf Nureyev

#anything #approach #begin #beginning #dancing

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#cells #changes #concentrating #developmental #differentiation

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#also #american #beetle #collection #collections

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#amongst #anne #art #associated #her

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#awoke #curiosity #early #i #i think

I 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 Nurse

#enough #examination #exams #finding #follow

My 6 years with Murdoch were pivotal for my entire research career. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#entire #murdoch #pivotal #research #were

My main efforts focussed on trying to identify the rate controlling steps during the cell cycle. Crucial for this analysis were wee mutants that were advanced prematurely through the cell cycle and so divided at a reduced cell size. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#analysis #cell #controlling #crucial #cycle

My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#born #chauffeur #cook #county #early