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There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

It has been recognized since the dawn of microbiology that the soil is inhabited by a living microscopic population which is responsible for the numerous reactions that take place in the soil and that affect the life and economy of man in many ways.

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.

I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

I have been a scientist for more than 40 years, having studied at Cambridge and Harvard. I researched and taught at Cambridge University, was a research fellow of the Royal Society, and have more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. I am strongly pro-science.

My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.

I'm a medical doctor and a biomedical scientist.

I quickly discovered that scientists go where the funding is, so I knew I had to start a research foundation. If you don't raise money and provide research grants, you'll never attract scientists, and if scientists aren't working on a cure, there isn't going to be a cure.