Jacques Dubochet

I hate personal competition, and so each time in my career I came in a field where it was highly competitive, I gave up.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

The trouble with vitreous water is that vitrification should be impossible.

In our group, it was a necessary requirement that one has to be able to collaborate.

We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which drug disentangles the aggregates that make a brain senile. Many of us are interested in such things.

Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.