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.

I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny 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.

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.

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.