The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

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.

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.

I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

I love Spain. It's my favorite country that I've been to and I've traveled quite a bit. I've been really fortunate as an adult to have been to a lot of interesting places like Egypt and China.

I think [Alex Acosta]will be a tremendous secretary of labor.

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

If I had a dollar for every million-dollar idea I've had, I'd be rich.

I don't think anybody really thinks that one should get rid of the World Bank. Reform is one thing, but getting rid of it I think would be wrong.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

To suggest is to create; to describe is to destroy.

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.