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

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

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.

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'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

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.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.