Everybody thinks some times that science is done as a master plan and that somebody like me came from Mars and figured out everything and so on, but that's really not the way it worked.

For me to sit down here, even as a Nobel Laureate and make a prediction about which science I think that will be a mistake.

There is a danger one has to really be knowing much more because you can't be too narrow on science.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

Perhaps the most valuable thing he taught me (his father) was that there is no contradiction between devotion to work and enjoyment of life and people

Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

You should have some time to think and that's very important.