It's nice to be able to look at one protein, but life is driven by the interactions between proteins, so it's really essential to be able to see multiple proteins at a time to understand these interactions.

Frankly, I guess, I don't really understand why people, why so many people, are so risk averse. You know, there's always ways to wiggle your way out of any situation if you're motivated enough.

We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.

In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.

The question was, 'Is there a way of minimizing the amount of damage you're doing so that you can then study cells in a physiological manner while also studying them at high spatial and temporal resolution for a long time?'