It is now widely realized that nearly all the 'classical' problems of molecular biology have either been solved or will be solved in the next decade.….

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cel….

Innovation comes only from an assault on the unknown..

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world..

Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in mee….

Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order..

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment wher….

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent..

So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that th….

I completed the first three years of primary school in one year and was admitted to the local school the age of six directly into the fourth year, so….

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantit….

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying s….

As was predicted at the beginning of the Human Genome Project, getting the sequence will be the easy part as only technical issues are involved. The ….

I set up a laboratory in the Department of Physiology in the Medical School in South Africa and begin to try to find a bacteriophage system which we ….

Have you tried neuroxing papers? It.'s a very easy and cheap process. You hold the page in front of your eyes and you let it go through there into th….

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford..

I think one of the things about creativity is not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing..