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

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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.

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

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 got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.