Carolina QuotesPeople ask me often (was) the Nobel Prize the thing you were aiming for all your life? And I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn’t get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.
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“People ask me often (was) the Nobel Prize the thing you were…” Gertrude B. Elion. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-CA99462D1A. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ca99462d1a
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