James Black
James Black
Former football player turned actor, known for his lead role on The Burning Zone.
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth3 April 1962
CityLima, OH
research technique study
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.
dream discipline joy
[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming.
father singing his-love
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.
passion progress tissues
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.
home views perspective
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.
summer balls students
I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.
school math years
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.
science wish biographies
I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
optimistic science vision
[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.