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.

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

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

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

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

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.