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.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

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

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.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

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

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.