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" We have access to practical, ethical and scientifically established methods of birth control. So I think that is the most ethical way to reduce our population. "
Christian de Duve
Think
Way
Birth
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" What would help us preserve our natural resources are genetic traits that let us sacrifice the present for the sake of the future. You need wisdom to sacrifice something that is immediately useful or advantageous for the sake of something that will be important in the future. "
Christian de Duve
Wisdom
Help
You
" My education, according to the tradition of the Jesuit school which I attended, had been centered on the 'ancient humanities', and I was strongly attracted to the more literary branches. "
Christian de Duve
Been
Education
Tradition
" I have had the good fortune to live - as an inside witness and, even, a modest participant - at a time when our understanding of this wonder we call 'life' has made its most revolutionary advances. "
Christian de Duve
Good
Understanding
Live
" The war broke out, and for a number of years I lived in darkness, with the memory of the lakes, the trees and the skies of Sweden, until I returned in 1946 to spend two unforgettable years in the laboratory of Hugo Theorell. "
Christian de Duve
Darkness
War
Skies
" Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions. "
Christian de Duve
Survive
Struggles
Witness
" Our investigations were very fruitful. They led to the discovery of a new cell part, the lysosome, which received its name in 1955, and later of yet another organelle, the peroxisome. "
Christian de Duve
Fruitful
New
Name
" I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture. "
Christian de Duve
Believe
Human Nature
I Am
" Due to these various circumstances, when I entered the Catholic University of Louvain in 1934, I had already travelled in a number of European countries and spoke four languages fairly fluently. This turned out to be a valuable asset in my subsequent career as a scientist. "
Christian de Duve
Career
University
Circumstances
" The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles. "
Christian de Duve
Existence
Right
Result
" The advantage of the analytical approach is that it is widely applicable, and it can provide a considerable amount of quantitative information even with a relatively poor resolving power. "
Christian de Duve
Even
Information
Poor
" Although separating mitochondria and microsomes might appear worlds apart from the determination of the molecular weight of macromolecules, certain concepts were common to the two operations and could be usefully transposed from the latter to the former. "
Christian de Duve
Determination
Common
Two
" In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before. "
Christian de Duve
Medicine
Spite
More
" It would be an exaggeration to say I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not afraid of what comes after, because I'm not a believer. "
Christian de Duve
Because
Would
Say
" When, in 1949, I decided to join the little band of early explorers who had followed Albert Claude in his pioneering expeditions, electron microscopy was still in its infancy. "
Christian de Duve
Band
Who
Still
" The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. "
Christian de Duve
Day
Lost
Energy
" We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society. "
Christian de Duve
Stop
Society
Learning
" We are sick because our cells are sick. "
Christian de Duve
Because
Cells
Our
" The cost of our success is the exhaustion of natural resources, leading to energy crises, climate change, pollution, and the destruction of our habitat. If you exhaust natural resources, there will be nothing left for your children. If we continue in the same direction, humankind is headed for some frightful ordeals, if not extinction. "
Christian de Duve
You
Children
Energy
" I followed lectures on the history, geography, economy and political organization of Sweden. "
Christian de Duve
Organization
Sweden
History
" If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population. "
Christian de Duve
Limit
Think
Want
" Overcrowded cities are spawning increasingly lawless suburbs. Waste is accumulating in and around them, straining the capacity to deal with it. "
Christian de Duve
Capacity
Suburbs
Deal
" I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone. "
Christian de Duve
Task
Action
Love
" My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish. "
Christian de Duve
City
Up
War
" When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left. "
Christian de Duve
Nothing
Disappear
Left