Jeffrey C. Hall Quotes

In my day, you could get a faculty job with zero post-doc papers, as in the case of yours truly; but now, the CV of a successful applicant looks like that of a newly minted full professor from olden times.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

What props up biological research, at least in the vaunted U.S. of A., involves a situation so deeply imbued with entitlement mentality that it has sunk into institutional corruption.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

A functional biological clock has three components: input from the outside world to set the clock, the timekeeping mechanism itself, and genetic machinery that allows the clock to regulate expression of a variety of genes.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

It is very unlikely that the genetics of homosexuality will ever devolve to a single factor in humans with such major effects as it has in Drosophila.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

People always think I'm Jewish. Actually, I'm a lapsed Catholic.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

Cryptochrome harnesses the energy of incoming blue light, but other molecules are probably needed to absorb light of other colors.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

I admit that I resent running out of research money.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

The question is not whether but how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspect of behavior.

- Jeffrey C. Hall

In any complex organism, brain formation and function must be controlled in part by genes.

- Jeffrey C. Hall