I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

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

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

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.

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.

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.