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

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

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

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.

The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.

Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Sarte was right, Hell is other people

Half of Silicon Valley's got a little bit of autism.