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.

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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

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

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

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