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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible.

We're born alone we live alone we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

All love that has not friendship for its base Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

Can't really despise people you don't know.

I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.

If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.