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.

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.

Our holy duty is to pray. The answer belongs to God.

Live as long as you may the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

I have exercise-induced asthma.

I love those films where I feel the director's confidence - where he doesn't need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never, ever, be bad in a good movie.

Best way to sell something: don't sell anything. Earn the awareness, respect and trust of those who might buy.

The sun is within me and so is the moon.

China after Olympics will progress very slowly. But the demands for freedom - on the part of ordinary people but also party members - won't be as easy to contain.