I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Until the ‘wrong belief’ leaves, we will continue to be robbed.

The true test of character is to live win-win even when promoted to positions where win-lose is possible.

Urges. Mercy, the urges.

Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.

I don't know if you'll see me jumping out of planes anytime soon.

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

Every man has a day in his life when nobody can defeat him.

Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.