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.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

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.

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

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.

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

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.