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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

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.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The hard part will be finding out what it means, because this poses intellectual problems of how to understand the participation of the genes in the functions of living cells.