I was a bad practicing physician because I was never sure of the diagnosis or of the treatment.

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

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

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

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.

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

To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.