The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

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

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.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.