At the suggestion of Professor Itaru Watanabe, and with his help, I left Japan at the age of twenty-three to pursue graduate study at the University of California at San Diego.
From Susumu Tonegawa
It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.
I see myself as a scientist who is interested in what's going on inside of us.
The brain is probably the most mysterious subject there is.
The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.
We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.
When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.
Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.
Humans are very imaginative animals.
Independent of what is happening around you in the outside world, humans constantly have internal activity in the brain.
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