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And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

My introduction to cell cycle control was provided by a clear, scholarly and beautiful seminar given by John Gerhart one afternoon in the summer of 1979.

I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.

In the earlier years when I started this project at Stanford University, everyone told me it was nuts to go and try to reproduce the mysterious complexities that occur in a whole cell.

In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life.

At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

Life is the division of human cells, a process which begins at conception.

I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.