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.

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

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

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 started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.