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 hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

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.

If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

Although I am a public figure, I'm still a little shy. I don't think my own personality is important. I prefer to keep some small dosage of privacy.