23 Quotes by Susumu Tonegawa

I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.

In the early Seventies, the technology for purifying a specific eukaryotic mRNA was just becoming available.

Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan.

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.