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Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s.

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.

Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.

I think the reason people are dealing with science less well now than 50 years ago is that it has become so complicated.

My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

I think that in the 21st century, medical biology will advance at a more rapid pace than before.

There are cases when it takes 50 or 100 years for fundamental science to achieve results.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.