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

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.

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.

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

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

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.