Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.