I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.