The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.
The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.
It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.
I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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.
I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.
In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.