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.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

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'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 got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.