I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

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

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.