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

I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work.

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.

Everybody has to learn for the first time.

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

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.