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

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.

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

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.

It (prayer) dispels frivolity and drives away all skin-deep forms of worship, and makes worship a serious and deep-seated service, impregnating body, soul, and spirit with its heavenly infusion.

Taking positive control of your daily thoughts is the only way that you can discover your true self.

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be

Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

I can promise that even having an imperfect one who loves you is better than having none at all.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

Spiritual matters are difficult to explain because you must live with them in order to fully understand them.