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.

Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.

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

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 hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

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.