As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

As soon as I found out there was a school you could go to to become a WWE superstar, I was immediately hooked.