By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.