I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.

There's a danger of some of the best people saying, 'I don't want a career in science.'

The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.

I have this rather amazing report which, roughly speaking, says I was the worst student the biology master had ever taught.

You can be the most beautiful person on Earth, and if you don't have a fitness or diet routine, you won't be beautiful.

I realized not long ago that by the time I leave this Earth, no matter when it is I will have officially only spent approximately 14 years of my life where I did not have to deal with cancer.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.