I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.

He told me that Francis Crick and Jim Watson had solved the structure of DNA, so we decided to go across to Cambridge to see it. This was in April of 1953.

During this period, I became interested in how the new techniques of cloning and sequencing DNA could influence the study of genetics and I was an early and active proponent of the Human Genome Sequencing Project.

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

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

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, some two years younger than all my contemporaries.

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 might use to solve the genetic code.

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 where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

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 cells and their functions.

I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

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 this was very fundamental.

The moment I saw the model and heard about the complementing base pairs I realized that it was the key to understanding all the problems in biology we had found intractable - it was the birth of molecular biology.

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 meeting new challenges knew no bounds.

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 sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

I went in with Jack and Leslie, into this room that was lined with brick, and there on the side I can remember very clearly was this small model with plates for the bases - the original model with everything screwed together.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

I didn't even know Michele before we started the show but we became great friends, and still are.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

If you live for people’s acceptance you’ll die from their rejection.

I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

The day I wake up without cellulite? Now that would be the perfect day.

I really love showing up at work at 10 A.M., trying to make it funny until 3 P.M., and then going home. It's like comedy bankers' hours.

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete.

The glory of the elderly is their insight to life.

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass.

The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.