If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

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.

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

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

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

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

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.