I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

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.

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

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