"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

Detail, Needs, Open

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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

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"As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it."

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"I got my Nobel Prize for my lab work."

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"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling."

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"Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that."

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"I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21."

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