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

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

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