Roderick MacKinnon – Interview – NobelPrize.org https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2003/mackinnon/interview/
of things, discoveries that have been used for very good purposes and for very bad
of things, discoveries that have been used for very good purposes and for very bad
It gets a bad press sometimes. CB: It ought not to.
Everyone always remembers a bad teacher, and particularly an excellent teacher.
that could be completely incorrect but sort of looked right could make people make bad
It’s not going to be like today, and this is actually why economists are so bad at
I was also of the opinion – and it’s probably true – that I am terribly bad at memorising
on a more expensive good; or resistance to lowering consumption in response to bad
So really you’ve got to be bad at something, but I was quite good at doing research
Who are the people who you think of when you do anything good or bad, you think of
Each scholarly discovery is neutral in itself, but can be used both for good and bad