Peter Doherty > Quotes

“If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.”
― Peter Doherty, The Beginner's Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize: Advice for Young Scientists

“There are two types of people in this world; those that sing in the shower and those that read in the bath”
― Peter Doherty

“The discovery of a new interest as the years roll on is one of life’s good surprises.”
― Peter Doherty, Their Fate Is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

“Whether we like the idea or not, humanity has the job of managing the planet, a process that can be in direct conflict with long-held beliefs and well-established practices, on the other hand, and with the urban romanticisation and anthropomorphization of animals (the Bambi syndrome), on the other. We need to change how we do things, but in ways that are driven as much by a respect for science and the realities of nature as by emotion.”
― Peter Doherty, Their Fate is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World

“We working scientists increasingly find ourselves living in a kind of Tower of Babel, where it’s harder and harder to stay abreast of what’s going on in even closely related fields.”
― Peter Doherty, Their Fate is Our Fate: How Birds Foretell Threats to Our Health and Our World