Top 29 Quotes by Tim Hunt

About Tim Hunt

These are some quotes by British author Tim Hunt Scientist, who was born on February 19, 1943.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Science is about applying what we know and asking what we don't know.

Tim Hunt

If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.

If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.

Tim Hunt

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

I did not know that I can win the Nobel Prize.

Tim Hunt

My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.

Tim Hunt

I have fallen in love with people in the lab, and people in the lab have fallen in love with me, and it's very disruptive to the science because it's terribly important that, in a lab, people are on a level playing field.

Tim Hunt

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

Anyone can win the Nobel Prize if the scientist works hard on his research subject.

Tim Hunt

I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.

I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.

Tim Hunt

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

At the age of 14, I moved across town to Magdalen College School, Oxford, where science played a much larger role in the curriculum.

Tim Hunt

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

Tim Hunt

My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.

Tim Hunt

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