James Black Quotations

I am concerned. When you have a team that works hard, I am concerned.

Myocardial oxygen consumption is determined by the work of the heart and is a function of arterial blood pressure and heart rate.

Most came from Texas, but about 150 cyclists from across the world also signed up. They come to us from everywhere - from Trinidad and Australia to England, Scotland and all points in between.

We have the experience, to where I feel comfortable in any situation.

We've been concentrating on the power play. Right now, we have the right power-play combination.

As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.

This is what this team has been focused on all season. It means even more to be the first (boys) team to do it, especially with all the publicity the football team gets.

everyone gets one for the cost of living - even school board members.

The last couple of games, he has been tested and done extremely well.

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

Clinically, angina pectoris was known to be precipitated by anxiety and emotion just as well as by exercise.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.

[There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.