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

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

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.

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

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

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.