The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

Our cells engage in protein production, and many of those proteins are enzymes responsible for the chemistry of life.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.

Humans are such creatures of habit that once they get us in all this debt that we accumulate from going college that we have to work it off for the rest of our lives.

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Your enemy can be your greatest teacher.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

The preparation for the ritual is the ritual.

Styling cars sells cars and safety does not.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.