Life's a hobby.

I hope I’ve lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it’s open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I’ve had.

I’m not easily inhibited by the fact that I don’t know something about a subject. It doesn’t stop me from dabbling in it.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You’ve been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

Although I am a public figure, I’m still a little shy. I don’t think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don’t live as if they deny it.

So many of the things I’ve predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

Try hard to find out what you’re good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.