My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.

It's a tragedy for society to spend decades training people and then depriving them of work at some arbitrary age.

I didn't want to spend my life contributing to the development of more atomic weaponry.

Science is not the glamour that's portrayed in films. It's a lot of drudgery work, along with the wonderfully exciting periods when you discover something.

In terms of the brain, you can in a crude way think of the human brain as a computer.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.