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.

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

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.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

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.

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