“I stand on the shoulders of giants.” — Michael Rosbash Quote

I stand on the shoulders of giants.

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.

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

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

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.

Fedor is one of the most gentlest giants you ever want to meet. I've got the utmost respect for him.

I'm a small guy slaying giants and I'll keep doing so.

On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began.

Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.

When I was five years old playing T-ball in Menlo Park, Calif., Royce Clayton was my favorite player. In T-ball, you play every position. Shortstop was my favorite. Royce was the shortstop for the Giants - my favorite position, on my favorite team. So he was my favorite player.