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

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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.

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