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

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

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

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.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job...It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

The main problem with this great obsession for saving time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

We wanted to be led by our mission and to embed our values throughout the world.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

I don't know how I want to come across looking, really. I just look how I am.

I'm a simple, simple man.

I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.