Haldan Keffer Hartline Quotes

United States, Physiologist
December 22, 1903 – March, 17, 1983.

Haldan Keffer Hartline was an American physiologist who was a co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision.

Also known as Neuroscientist

One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.

Haldan Keffer Hartline
- World
- Great
- Stand
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

Haldan Keffer Hartline

Alfred Nobel was much concerned, as are we all, with the tangible benefits we hope for and expect from physiological and medical research, and the Faculty of the Caroline Institute has ever been alert to recognize practical benefits.

Haldan Keffer Hartline
- Hope
- Research
- Medical
One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

Haldan Keffer Hartline
Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.

Haldan Keffer Hartline