Michael Rosbash Quotes

This is the western world; if somebody can make a buck, they're going to try to do it.

- Michael Rosbash

The same biological clock ticks away in humans and fruit flies, which underscores the importance of circadian timing to life on this planet.

- Michael Rosbash

Scientific careers rely on inheritance, environment, and random events, like all biological phenomena.

- Michael Rosbash

I try not to take sleep medication.

- Michael Rosbash

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

- Michael Rosbash

It was always intriguing that flies had two peaks of activity, in the morning and evening, with a siesta during the day and not very much activity at night. There are several ways to explain that, but one possibility was that there were two clocks running - one governing the morning peak and one governing the evening peak.

- Michael Rosbash

We benefited from an enlightened post-war period in the United States: Our National Institutes of Health have enthusiastically and generously supported basic research.

- Michael Rosbash

The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a chance to understand at multiple levels how different sets of neurons communicate with each other - including understanding the wiring rules, the biochemical rules, and the functional behavioral rules.

- Michael Rosbash

Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.

- Michael Rosbash

I don't drink alcohol too late in the evening; I read a good book.

- Michael Rosbash

I was a difficult kid and a somewhat indifferent student but realized somehow that a new start at a good place, and far from home, was important.

- Michael Rosbash

I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while also engaging students in the process of discovery. This is a very special - perhaps unique - university.

- Michael Rosbash

I won't start quite at the beginning... but the emigration of my parents from Nazi Germany and their new life in the U.S.A. A one sentence summary of these events is that after some years of trouble and considerable hard work, my parents established a satisfactory if not comfortable life for themselves and their two children.

- Michael Rosbash

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.

- Michael Rosbash

Most important for the circadian field was the pioneering work of Ron Konopka in Seymour's lab.

- Michael Rosbash

It's been overlooked for a long time as a real public health problem. All of western society is a little bit sleep-deprived, and when I say a little bit, I mean chronically.

- Michael Rosbash

You've got to go for what you love and not look back 30 years, 40 years later and say, 'I never tried.' You got to try.

- Michael Rosbash