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

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

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

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.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.