A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.
I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.
I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while.
I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
