The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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