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.
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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that.
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If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.
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When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.
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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.
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