I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

I mean, the general rule is if you're not prepared to make a mistake, you're not going to make much progress.

In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more enterprising people; the people who were stronger mentally. It takes a certain amount of imagination to make a life on the other side of the world, the same imagination it takes to climb the tallest mountain.