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

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

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

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

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.

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