I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we might use to solve the genetic code.

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown.

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into the brain. It's much better than xeroxing.

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

Smile is a power someone cannot defeat.

I'm very happy in my law practice and my security firm.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.

Genuine philosophical problems are always rooted outside philosophy and they die if these roots decay.

the beginning of my history is - love. It is the beginning of every man and every woman's history, if they are only frank enough to admit it.

I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing that there is no easy out. Before accepting that you just have to do the work.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

Would I were in an alehouse in London.