Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.

Nature is one. It is not divided into physics, chemistry, quantum mechanics.

A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.

Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.

Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.